U.S. News to Add Peer Assessment to Part-Time JD Program Rankings
For the next edition of its annual law school rankings, U.S. News & World Report will ask deans to rate other part-time JD programs and factor those ratings into those programs’ rankings.
Law school deans, deans of academic affairs, chairs of faculty appointments and other tenured faculty will be asked to rate 99 part-time JD programs on a 1-to-5 scale, Bob Morse, director of data research for U.S. News & World Report wrote on his blog, Morse Code.
An average of those numerical scores will set the rating. Deans are asked skip the rating and mark “don’t know” if they do not think they know enough about a part-time JD program to give it a fair shake.
What other factors may become a part of the 2011 ranking of part-time JD programs? Students’ LSAT scores and grade point averages as well as the program’s acceptance rate, Morse wrote.
