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To create the ranking I evenly weighted 3 factors: 1. The average usnews ranking from 2014-2026, 2. The prime job (big law and fed clerkships) outcomes for the graduating classes of 2022-2025, and 3. The student/faculty ratio average from 2023-2025.
I chose these factors because I wanted to ranking to prioritize outcomes and quality, represented by prime jobs and student/faculty ratios. I also wanted to soften this with the average usnews ranking to account for the other factors they consider as well as general prestige.
For the usnews rankings I just averaged the rank of the school for each year and gave it a new rank based on that average.
For the prime job outcomes I took the ABA data for each school for each year and divided the number of graduates employed at both big law firms and federal clerkships by the total number of graduates that year. I took that percentage and ranked each school by it
For student teacher ratios I similarly took the ABA data and divided the total number of students by the number of full-time faculty plus 1/3 of the part time faculty.
Here is the ranking:
Stanford
Chicago
Northwestern
Penn
Yale
Cornell
UVA
NYU
Columbia
Michigan
Georgetown
WashU
USC
UCLA
Berkeley
UT Austin
Vanderbilt
Boston U
Minnesota
Harvard (rip)
Duke
GW
Notre Dame
Boston College
Brigham Young
I know this is a pretty crazy ranking, and I have no experience doing actual data analysis or working with this kind of thing. I just wanted to give it a try after being so sucked into this stuff during the latest cycle. I’d love feedback, just be nice about my low standards for data analysis it’s my first time.