Most people who go to law school want to be lawyers. At ATL, we believe that the relative quality of a law school should therefore be measured by how well it delivers on the promise of gainful legal employment... That's why the ATL rankings prioritize outcomes above all other factors.
Employment represents the bulk of a school's overall score in our methodology, featuring in two separately weighted criteria: legal employment... and "quality jobs"... While we removed student debt as a separate element this year, we continue to factor in the cost of obtaining a law degree.
Another change to this year's formula is the addition of first-time bar passage rate. This is in line with our premise that it is the result of a law school education that matters most to graduates... The last two elements of a school's score also relate to outcomes in that they consider the number of graduates serving as federal judges and U.S. Supreme Court clerks.
You may notice that some of the usual suspects (e.g., Harvard, Yale, Stanford, NYU) aren't among the top 10. That's obviously not because they aren't great law schools, but because they didn't score as well in our ranking criteria.
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