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Top US Law Schools 2008

June 18, 2008 – 7:07 am by Nick

Each year the US News ranks the top law schools in the nation. They determine the rankings by issuing surveys. They grade the 184 law schools on their peer assessment score, assessment score by lawyers/judges, selectivity, median LSAT scores, median undergrad GPA, acceptance rate, placement success, employment rates for graduates, bar passage rate, expenditures per student, student/faculty ratio, and library resources.

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Here are the 2008 Law School rankings:

1. Yale University New Haven, CT // Score 100
2. Harvard University Cambridge, MA // Score 91
3. Stanford University Stanford, CA // Score 91
4. Columbia University New York, NY // Score 88
5. New York University New York, NY // Score 85
6. University of California–Berkeley Berkeley, CA // Score 81
7. University of Chicago Chicago, IL // Score 80
8. University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA // Score 80
9. Northwestern University Chicago, IL // Score 79
10. University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI // Score 79
11. University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA // Score 79
12. Cornell University Ithaca, NY // Score 77
13. Duke University Durham, NC // Score 77
14. Georgetown University Washington, DC // Score 74
15. Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN // Score 72
16. University of California–Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA // Score 71
17. University of Texas–Austin Austin, TX // Score 71
18. University of Southern California (Gould) Los Angeles, CA // Score 68
19. Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO // Score 67
20. George Washington University Washington, DC // Score 65
21. Boston University Boston, MA // Score 64
22. Emory University Atlanta, GA // Score 63
23. University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Minneapolis, MN // Score 63
24. University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN // Score 63
25. Washington and Lee University Lexington, VA // Score 62
26. Boston College Newton, MA // Score 61
27. Fordham University New York, NY // Score 60
28. University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL // Score 60
29. University of Iowa Iowa City, IA // Score 60
30. College of William and Mary (Marshall-Wythe) Williamsburg, VA // Score 59
31. University of Washington Seattle, WA // Score 59
32. Ohio State University (Moritz) Columbus, OH // Score 58
33. University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL // Score 58
34. University of Colorado–Boulder Boulder, CO // Score 58
35. University of Georgia Athens, GA // Score 58
36. Indiana University–Bloomington Bloomington, IN // Score 57
37. University of Wisconsin–Madison Madison, WI // Score 57
38. George Mason University Arlington, VA // Score 56
39. University of Arizona (Rogers) Tucson, AZ // Score 56
40. University of California (Hastings) San Francisco, CA // Score 56
41. University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC // Score 56
42. University of Maryland Baltimore, MD // Score 55
43. Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC // Score 55
44. Tulane University New Orleans, LA // Score 54
45. University of California–Davis Davis, CA // Score 54
46. American University (Washington) Washington, DC // Score 53
47. Brigham Young University (Clark) Provo, UT // Score 53
48. Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX // Score 53
49. University of Connecticut Hartford, CT // Score 53
50. University of Florida (Levin) Gainesville, FL // Score 53
51. University of Utah (Quinney) Salt Lake City, UT // Score 52
52. Arizona State University (O’Connor) Tempe, AZ // Score 50
53. University of Cincinnati Cincinnati, OH // Score 50
54. University of Tennessee–Knoxville Knoxville, TN // Score 50
55. Baylor University (Umphrey) Waco, TX // Score 49
56. Florida State University Tallahassee, FL // Score 49
57. University of Houston Houston, TX // Score 49
58. Yeshiva University (Cardozo) New York, NY // Score 49
59. Pepperdine University Malibu, CA // Score 48
60. Temple University (Beasley) Philadelphia, PA // Score 48
61. University of Kentucky Lexington, KY // Score 48
62. University of Missouri–Columbia Columbia, MO // Score 48
63. Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY // Score 47
64. Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH // Score 47
65. Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA // Score 47