Personal Injury Law

U.S News and World Report Rankings and the University of Baltimore Law School

U.S. News and World Report ranks the University of Baltimore Law School in the Third Tier again in its annual rankings of law schools.

I was hoping to see the Law School jump to the second tier, but that is probably not yet realistic. But a new state-of-the-art building for the law school is coming and lots of other changes. I was telling my insurance law class at UB this morning that I can feel the quality of students dramatically improving. This means more to me than what U.S. News and World Report has to say.

One thing you cannot help but notice in looking at the ranking of the school is that University of Baltimore has a particularly large law school. Contrast the University of Louisville?s 323 students with the University of Baltimore?s 657 full-time law students. This makes the competition a little unfair. If Louisville took 657 law students, the quality of its enrolled class would look very different. I think we would fare better if they only considered the top 300 students in the rankings.

• Wall Street Journal Article
(discussing the rise of the University of Baltimore in the U.S. News and World Report rankings)
• New Dean at the University of Baltimore
(announcement of new law school dean in 2007)
• New University of Baltimore Law School Campus?
(report of potentially expanding UB to P.G. County)
• New University of Baltimore Law School Building
(Peter Angelos' donation and construction of a new law school)
• Maryland Bar Exam
(University of Baltimore's rising pass rate)
• The Volokh Conspiracy on Law School Rankings
(David Bernstein's post on how the U.S. News & World Report ranking have gotten out of hand)

Full post as published by Maryland Injury Lawyer Blog on April 21, 2009 (boomark / email).