Which Highly Ranked Law Schools Operate Most Efficiently?

An exclusive U.S. word of honorlist names Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—Camden Law School as one of the most efficient in the country.

 

Many law schools arfacing tight budgets and in some cases, declining enrollments. As a result, it's important for many impartialityschools to spend their limited resources efficiently in order to elevatethe highest possible educational quality.

 

 

U.S. News has developed a new, exclusive list showing which law schools are able to buzz offthe highest educational quality, as determined by their place in our Best Law Schools rankings, but spend relativelyless(prenominal)cashto achieve that quality. The Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville finished at the top of the efficacyratings and the law directat Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—Camden came in second. GeorgestonemasonLaw School was in third place.

U.S. News measures monetaryresources in part by taking into account how much a law informspends per schoolchildon instruction, including faculty and modulesalaries, library, supporting services and other expenditures, such as financial aid. The financial resources ranking factor is a direct pass judgmentof the size of each law school's yearlybudgetexpenditures per student compared with other law schools, and it has an 11.25 percent weight in the Best Law Schools rankings methodology.

The new list is based on the concept of in operation(p)efficiency, defined as a law school's total budget expenditures per student divided by its boilers suitadd up– which U.S. News uses to determine its overall numerical array– in the 2014 outperformLaw Schools rankings. This calculation reveals how much each law naturalizeis disbursementfor each point in its overall score and thus, its position in the rankings.

The less a law school spends relative to other schools as correlated to its overall U.S. News rank, the more efficient it is in producing a quality teachingcompared with other schools.

How should these results be interpreted? Law schools that are featured on this list are doing a good job in managing their financial resources relative to other schools that may have hightuitions, larger endowments or greater state funding. Many of these schools are likely to be more affordable in basisof tuition for both in-state and out-of-students relative to other law schools, since to the highest degreeall of them are public universities.

Only schools that were numerically ranked in the top 100 in the Best Law Schools 2014 rankings wereincludein this analysis. The table below shows the 25 law schools that scored the highest on the operating efficiency measure, sorted by those that spent less per student to achieve a relatively high rank.

Law school (name) (state)	U.S. News 2014 Best Law Schools rank	Total fiscal year 2012 spending per student	Spending per student for each point in the U.S. News overall score
University of Louisville (Brandeis) (KY)	68	$28,151	$654.67
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–Camden	91	$26,858	$688.67
George Mason University (VA)	41	$38,684	$703.35
University of Wisconsin—Madison	33	$42,415	$731.29
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey—Newark	86	$30,236	$755.90
College of William andbloody shame(Marshall-Wythe) (VA)	33	$44,104	$760.41
University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill	31	$45,232	$766.64
University of Tennessee—Knoxville	61	$34,792	$773.16
University of Nebraska—Lincoln	61	$35,228	$782.84
University of Kentucky	58	$36,407	$791.46
Georgia State University	54	$38,099	$793.73
University of Houston	48	$39,761	$795.22
University of Hawaii—Manoa (Richardson)	80	$33,025	$805.49
University of Alabama	21	$53,469	$810.14
George Washington University (DC)	21	$53,495	$810.53
University of Arkansas—Fayetteville	68	$35,041	$814.91
University of Missouri	76	$34,437	$819.93
University of Virginia	7	$69,704	$820.05
Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge (Hebert)	76	$34,909	$831.17
University ofdoh(Quinney)	41	$46,512	$845.67
University of Florida (Levin)	46	$45,654	$861.40
Georgetown University (DC)	14	$64,734	$863.12
Wake Forest University (NC)	36	$49,318	$865.23
Emory University (GA)	23	$57,323	$881.89
Ohio State University (Moritz)	36	$50,269	$881.91

Note: A law school's overall rank is partly based on a two-year comelyof expenditures per student for fiscal year 2011 and 2012. The expenditures per student figures reflect besidesthe most recent 2012 fiscal year and include cultivationspending that has been adjusted for regional cost of living differences. entropyon total spending per student are regenerateas of May 30, 2013. 

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