The Princeton Assessment has printed the 2023 version of The Greatest 168 Regulation Colleges (press launch) (FAQs) (methodology):

The corporate studies its annual legislation college rankings in 14 classes: each lists the highest 10 rating faculties. …

The Princeton Assessment’s legislation college rankings are uniquely primarily based on information the corporate gathers from surveys of directors on the legislation faculties in addition to surveys of scholars attending the faculties who price and report on their experiences at them. The rankings for 2023 are primarily based on surveys of directors at 168 legislation faculties in 2021-22 and surveys of 17,000 college students enrolled within the faculties [an average of 101 per school] over the previous three educational years.

Greater than 60 information factors are factored into the corporate’s rating checklist tallies. Of the 14 classes of rating lists, six lists are primarily based on student- and administrator-reported information. 5 are primarily based solely on scholar information, and three are primarily based solely on administrator information.

Greatest High quality of Life: Based mostly on scholar solutions to survey questions on: whether or not there’s a sturdy sense of neighborhood on the college whether or not differing opinions are tolerated within the classroom, the situation of the varsity, the standard of social life on the college, the varsity’s analysis assets (library, pc and database assets). 

1. Virginia
2. Florida State
3. Vanderbilt
4. UCLA
5. Penn

Greatest Professors:  Based mostly on scholar solutions to survey questions regarding how good their professors are as academics and the way accessible they’re outdoors the classroom.

1. Chicago
2. Duke
3. Stanford
4. Virginia
5. Vanderbilt

Greatest Classroom Expertise: Based mostly on scholar solutions to survey questions regarding their professors’ educating skills and general accessibility outdoors of the classroom, the steadiness of principle and sensible expertise within the curricula and the vary of programs accessible, the extent of tolerance for differing opinions in school dialogue, and their assessments of analysis assets accessible.

1. Stanford
2. Duke
3. Chicago
4. Virginia
5. Michigan

Greatest Profession Prospects:  Based mostly on college reported information and scholar surveys. Faculty information embrace: the median beginning salaries of graduating college students, the % of scholars employed in a job that requires bar passage (and never employed by the varsity) and the % of those college students who go the bar examination the primary time they take it. Pupil solutions to survey questions on: how a lot the legislation program encourages sensible expertise; the alternatives for externships, internships and clerkships, and the way ready the scholars really feel they are going to be to follow the legislation after graduating.

1. NYU
2. Virginia
3. Michigan
4. Stanford
5. Duke

Most Various School:  Based mostly on college reported information and scholar surveys. Faculty information: the % of the legislation college school that’s from an underrepresented minority group. Pupil solutions to a survey query on whether or not the college includes a broadly various group of people.

1. Southern
2. Hawaii
3. District of Columbia
4. Florida Worldwide
5. Miami

Most Aggressive College students:  Based mostly on scholar solutions to survey questions on: the variety of hours they research outdoors of sophistication every day, the variety of hours they suppose their fellow college students research outdoors of sophistication every day, and the diploma of competitiveness amongst college students at their college.

1. Baylor
2. Syracuse
3. Faulkner
4. BYU
5. Campbell

Most Liberal College students:  Based mostly on scholar solutions to a survey query in regards to the political bent of the coed physique at giant. The survey query was “If there’s a prevailing political bent amongst college students at your college, how would you characterize it?” Reply decisions have been: “Very Liberal, Liberal, Center of the Street, Considerably Conservative, Very Conservative.”

1. Northeastern
2. CUNY
3. NYU
4. American
5. UC-Berkeley

Most Conservative College students:  Based mostly on scholar solutions to a survey query in regards to the political bent of the coed physique at giant. The survey query was “If there’s a prevailing political bent amongst college students at your college, how would you characterize it?” Reply decisions have been: “Very Liberal, Liberal, Center of the Street, Considerably Conservative, Very Conservative.”

1. Ave Maria
2. Regent
3. BYU
4. George Mason
5. Faulkner

Best Assets for Minority College students:  Based mostly on college reported information and scholar surveys. Faculty information: the % of the coed physique that’s from an underrepresented minority group. Pupil solutions to a survey query on whether or not all college students obtain equal therapy by fellow college students and the college, no matter ethnicity.

1. St. Thomas-FL
2. District of Columbia
3. Southern
4. Yale
5. Illinois-Chicago

Best Assets for Girls:  Based mostly on college reported information and scholar surveys. Faculty information: the % of the coed physique which are ladies. Pupil solutions to a survey query on whether or not all college students are afforded equal therapy by college students and school no matter their gender.

1. UC-Davis
2. CUNY
3. Stanford
4. Tempo
5. New York Regulation Faculty

Most Chosen by Older College students:  Based mostly on the typical age of entry of legislation college college students and scholar studies of what number of years they spent out of faculty earlier than enrolling in legislation college.

1. District of Columbia
2. CUNY
3. New Mexico
4. Hawaii
5. Maine

Hardest to Get Into:  Based mostly on college reported information. Components embrace: median LSAT scores and undergraduate GPAs of coming into 1L college students, the % of candidates accepted, and the % of accepted candidates who enroll.

1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Michigan
4. NYU
5. Virginia

Sadly, the Princeton Assessment didn’t launch the response price per college, so it’s inconceivable to find out how the rankings are affected by every college’s illustration among the many respondents.

For prior Princeton Assessment Regulation Faculty Rankings, see:

Princeton Assessment’s Greatest 168 Regulation Colleges (2022) Version

Princeton Assessment’s Greatest 164 Regulation Colleges (2021 Version)

Princeton Assessment’s Greatest 167 Regulation Colleges (2020 Version)

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