"Rather than concentrating on the prestige factors that usually dominate law school ranking systems, this ranking focuses solely on factors that provide the "best value" for students. That said, this is a list that is typically dominated by public schools, with a smattering of private schools mixed in. Curiously, for the past few years, a private school had come out on top of the National Jurist ranking - but that has stopped, and a new value victor reigns supreme in 2025."
"The National Jurist's ranking takes into account a law school's tuition, students' cost of living expenses, students' average indebtedness upon graduation (collectively weighted 55%), the percentage of graduates who got a job after graduation (30%), and bar passage rates (two-year difference between first-time pass rate and average state pass rate; two-year ultimate pass rate; and two-year first-time raw pass rate) (15%)."
The National Jurist's Best Value ranking measures law schools by tuition, cost of living, average graduate indebtedness (55%), graduate employment rate (30%), and multiple bar passage metrics (15%). The metric set emphasizes factors that lower student costs and increase post-graduate success, which produces a list dominated by public universities. Private institutions appear less frequently, with only one private school in the Top 20 and ten others appearing later in the overall ranking. The 2025 rankings show ties much like other leading rankings and reveal Florida State, Brigham Young, Georgia, and Florida among the Top 20 value leaders.
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