UC Irvine Law School has joined a growing number of universities opting out of participating in US News and World Report rankings amid claims such are “problematic” to legal education.
For decades, the magazine has served a large role in the university ranking industry, comparing over 190 law schools and other institutions across the country, and in turn, creating a hierarchy students and employers often refer to when deciding which schools to attend and from which to hire recent graduates.
Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, Columbia, Stanford, and Georgetown law schools withdrew from its ranking system last month, despite consistently ranking in the magazine’s top 10 spots each year….