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The Only Law School Rankings That Really Matter: Getting Jobs and Making Money!

This Top 50 is based on graduates getting bona fide legal field jobs after graduation and earning enough money to pay off the loans that put them through it.

Top 50 US Law Schools based on what are likely (or should be) the two most important results for future graduates!

The Above The Law website has put together a Top 50 list of law schools that gets down to the nitty gritty criteria that should matter most to those who are applying: Success graduates have getting a bona fide job in the legal profession and earning enough from that job to pay off any loans that were required to earn the degree!

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This is a snapshot of the components that went into creating the list and the reasons why each one was deemed to be important (click on the picture to make it larger).

Based on these specific inputs the following are the Top 50 Law Schools in the US, many of which you would suspect would be on any Top 50 law school list regardless of the criteria used to rank them!

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How do law schools fare when assessed using this outcome-based methodology?

2014 RANKSCHOOL2013RANKCHANGESCORE1Yale Law School1→ 087.452Harvard Law School3↑ 186.593Stanford Law School2↓ 185.764Columbia Law School8↑ 477.75University of Chicago Law School4↓ 177.056NYU School of Law10↑ 476.697Duke Law School6↓ 175.168University of Pennsylvania Law School5↓ 374.439University of Virginia Law School7↓ 273.8910University of Michigan Law School12↑ 269.5611Northwestern University School of Law13↑ 269.4912UC Berkeley School of Law9↓ 369.3113Cornell University Law School11↓ 268.7614Vanderbilt Law School15↑ 164.6215University of Texas at Austin School of Law14↓ 162.2516Georgetown University Law Center16→ 059.3717University of Notre Dame Law School18↑ 154.9918University of Iowa College of Law37↑ 1950.4819UCLA School of Law17↓ 250.1920University of Georgia Law School19↓ 149.6121Boston College Law School21→ 049.5122University of New Mexico School of Law26↑ 448.6823University of North Carolina School of Law24↑ 148.5824BYU – J. Reuben Clark Law School28↑ 448.525SMU Dedman School of Law22↓ 347.8126Washington University of St. Louis School of Law25↓ 147.0827University of Illinois College of Law33↑ 646.6628University of Alabama School of Law27↓ 146.4329George Washington University Law School31↑ 246.1230Boston University School of Law23↓ 744.6531Indiana University – Maurer School of Law (Bloomington)40↑ 944.6332University of Florida – Levin College of Law44↑ 1244.533University of Minnesota, Twin Cities32↓ 144.0834University of Houston Law Center35↑ 143.8335USC Gould School of Law20↓ 1543.636Emory University School of Law29↓ 743.1437Washington and Lee University School of Law38↑ 142.6938Ohio State – Moritz College of Law46↑ 841.6939William & Mary School of Law34↓ 541.5340Seton Hall Law School36↓ 441.1641University of Washington School of Law41→ 040.3142UC Davis School of Law45↑ 339.7543Arizona State University – Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law50↑ 739.3244Temple University, James E. Beasley LawNR3945Georgia State University College of Law42↓ 338.8846Wake Forest University School of Law30↓ 1638.7747Case Western Reserve LawNR38.3348Rutgers School of Law, Camden43↓ 538.1249University of Miami School of Law49→ 037.2650Tulane University Law School39↓ 1137.24Buyers of Residential or Commercial Real Estate in New York State or anyone refinancing an existing mortgage there can potentially save hundreds of dollars in closing costs with Hallmark Abstract Service! Click here to learn more.

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