That tracks. USNWR education rankings in all areas have always been suspect. Their Law School rankings have, for years, been the definitive source for Law School rankings, but they relied in large part on some pretty dubious metrics, and a lot of schools were intentionally doing things to inflate those metrics. It’s why the T14, or top 14, law schools haven’t changed much in years and years, and why Harvard and Yale grads dominate our judiciary. Thankfully, a whole ton of law schools started noping out of volunteering that data to USNWR a couple of years ago, rendering those rankings practically worthless now. I’m not sure how USNWR became the de facto ranker of education in the first place.
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