Good Law Schools -- The Rest of the
Top Half
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The law schools below are below Tyler's Top Ten, but they are good law
schools -- in the top half of
all law schools in the United States -- and some of them are great bargains:
|
Order
|
Order Change 2003-04
|
School
|
Success
Rate
|
Comments
|
n
|
Type
|
|
11
|
+4
|
Columbia Univ.
|
82%
|
|
193
|
O-ABA
|
|
12
|
-3
|
Univ. Of Pennsylvania
|
82%
|
|
98
|
O-ABA
|
|
13
|
|
Univ. of Texas
|
80%
|
|
100
|
O-ABA
|
|
14
|
|
Univ. Of Michigan
|
79%
|
|
312
|
O-ABA
|
|
15
|
-3
|
Northwestern University
|
78%
|
|
164
|
O-ABA
|
|
16
|
-2
|
Univ. of Notre Dame
|
77%
|
|
75
|
O-ABA
|
|
17
|
-1
|
Georgetown Univ
|
76%
|
|
480
|
O-ABA
|
|
18
|
|
Univ. of Cal. - Davis
|
73%
|
|
1001
|
ABA
|
|
19
|
|
Univ. of Southern Cal.
|
73%
|
|
1194
|
ABA
|
|
20
|
+1
|
Cornell University
|
70%
|
|
135
|
O-ABA
|
|
21
|
+2
|
Brigham Young Univ.
|
70%
|
|
122
|
O-ABA
|
|
22
|
|
Hastings College
|
69%
|
|
2354
|
ABA
|
|
23
|
-3
|
Vanderbilt Univ.
|
67%
|
|
76
|
O-ABA
|
|
24
|
|
University of San Diego
|
66%
|
|
1909
|
ABA
|
|
25
|
|
Univ. Of Minnesota
|
63%
|
|
120
|
ABA
|
|
26
|
|
Loyola -Los Angeles
|
62%
|
|
2824
|
ABA
|
|
27
|
|
Santa Clara University
|
60%
|
|
1858
|
ABA
|
|
28
|
|
Univ. of San Francisco
|
59%
|
|
1345
|
ABA
|
|
29
|
+2
|
George Washington
|
59%
|
|
307
|
O-ABA
|
|
30
|
+4
|
Univ. Of Wisconsin
|
59%
|
|
70
|
O-ABA
|
|
31
|
-1
|
Pepperdine University
|
57%
|
|
1339
|
ABA
|
|
32
|
-3
|
Oak Brook
|
56%
|
Best for Less
|
152
|
CORRES
|
|
33
|
-1
|
Univ. Of Arizona
|
56%
|
|
108
|
O-ABA
|
|
34
|
+3
|
Boston University
|
55%
|
|
230
|
O-ABA
|
|
35
|
-2
|
Boston College
|
55%
|
|
110
|
O-ABA
|
|
36
|
|
Lewis & Clark College
|
54%
|
|
143
|
O-ABA
|
|
37
|
-2
|
Southwestern University
|
53%
|
|
1828
|
O-ABA
|
|
38
|
+4
|
Tulane Univ.
|
53%
|
|
234
|
O-ABA
|
|
39
|
+1
|
McGeorge Law School
|
52%
|
|
2066
|
ABA
|
|
40
|
-2
|
California Western
|
50%
|
|
1501
|
ABA
|
|
41
|
+3
|
Univ. Of Denver
|
50%
|
|
50
|
O-ABA
|
|
42
|
-1
|
American Univ.
|
48%
|
|
205
|
O-ABA
|
|
43
|
-4
|
Northeastern Univ.
|
46%
|
|
57
|
O-ABA
|
|
44
|
-1
|
Univ. Of Oregon
|
44%
|
|
144
|
O-ABA
|
|
45
|
+2
|
Chapman University
|
44%
|
|
591
|
ABA
|
|
46
|
|
Univ. Of Iowa
|
43%
|
|
86
|
O-ABA
|
|
47
|
n/a
|
Concord University
|
42%
|
Good Value
|
60
|
CORRES
|
The most noteworthy thing about these schools is that all but two are ABA
approved law schools, but Oak Brook, a correspondence school, is outperforming many of them. And
another correspondence school, Concord, also is ranked here, for the
first time, at the bottom of the top half of all law schools. Dollar for dollar Oak Brook
and Concord are clearly providing top notch legal education for very reasonable
prices.
The other noteworthy thing is that the last of this group has success rates
below 50%. That means, in effect, that graduates take the
CGBX more than twice for each graduate who passes.
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