Do you want to know what the best and top law schools 2016 are in your state? The entities in the best position to rank law schools, the American Bar Association and the Law School Admissions Council, have elected not to engage in the practice of ranking law schools. Therefore, this article will outline the best law schools according to U.S. News and World Reports, the leader in ranking law schools, by state in which the law school is located.
Top Law Schools 2016 By State
- Alabama–University of Alabama
- Arizona–Arizona State University
- Arkansas–University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
- California– Stanford University
- Colorado–University of Colorado, Boulder
- Connecticut–Yale University
- Florida–University of Florida (Levin)
- Georgia–Emory University
- Hawaii–University of Hawaii, Manoa
- Idaho–University of Idaho
- Illinois–University of Chicago
- Indiana–Indiana University, Bloomington
- Iowa–University of Iowa
- Kansas–University of Kansas
- Kentucky–University of Kentucky
Rankings for law schools in the remaining states (not listed) were not published. This means that none of the law schools in those states were in the top 143 best law schools.
- Louisiana–Tulane University
- Maine–University of Maine
- Maryland–University of Maryland
- Massachusetts–Harvard University
- Michigan–University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Minnesota–University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
- Mississippi–University of Mississippi
- Missouri–Washington University
- Montana–University of Montana
- Nebraska–University of Nebraska, Lincoln
- Nevada–University of Nevada, Las Vegas
- New Hampshire–University of New Hampshire School of Law
- New Jersey–Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Camden
- New York–Columbia University
- North Carolina–Duke University
- Ohio–Ohio State University
- Oklahoma–University of Oklahoma
- Oregon–Lewis & Clark College
- Pennsylvania–University of Pennsylvania
- Tennessee-Vanderbilt University
- Texas–University of Texas, Austin
- Utah–Brigham Young University
- Vermont–Vermont Law School
- Virginia–University of Virginia
- Washington–University of Washington
- Washington, DC–Georgetown University
- West Virgina–West Virgina University
- Wisconsin–University of Wisconsin, Madison
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Perhaps you are wondering what makes these universities the best law schools. The criterion used for assessing the quality of each law school are as follows:
1. Quality assessment as measured by opinion surveys;
2. Selectivity, which is measured by incoming student profiles and the law school’s acceptance rate;
3. Placement success, which is measured by the bar passage rate and the employment rate of law school graduates; and
4. Faculty resources, which is measured by expenditures, library volumes and faculty to student ratios.
Whether this is the best method for judging what the best law schools are, is debatable and has been criticized and challenged by some. If you are not convinced that these are the best law schools, the American Bar Association has assembled The Official Guide to ABA Approved Law Schools to provide you with relevant information so that you can determine for yourself which schools are the best and top law schools 2016 by state
