Movement in US News Peer Assessment Scores, 2008-09

Bradford Hardin's comment on my first takes on the US News law school rankings led me to look at the difference between 2008 and 2009 Peer assessments in the 104 Tier-1 schools.   As the table below shows, most schools (55) went up .1, though 3 went down .1 and 5 went up .2.

(2009 assessment - 2008 assessment)

Difference          N

-0.1                3
0.0              41
0.1              55
0.2                5
            ----
            104

Who went down and who went up .2?  Look below the fold.

Tier 1 Schools with difference between 2008 and 2009 Peer assessments of -.01 or 0.2

                   Peer assessment
            --------------------------------
School        2008  2009  Difference

Yale            4.9    4.8         -0.1
NYU             4.6    4.5         -0.1
Wisco.        3.5    3.4         -0.1

Mercer           2.0    2.2        0.2
U Pacific        2.0    2.2        0.2
Santa Clara    2.4    2.6       0.2
Tennessee      2.6    2.8       0.2
UC Hastings    3.2    3.4      0.2

    Go Calvin!

Alfred Brophy

Comments

[Bradford Hardin]

I stand corrected, although I stand by my comments about UA's faculty (one notable loss notwithstanding).

http://www.law.ua.edu/news/articles/?re=08newfaculty

Thanks for the numbers.