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Chapman University School of Law

2

University of St. Thomas School of Law

3

Stanford University Law School

4

Vanderbilt University School of Law

5

University of Virginia School of Law

6

University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law

7

Regent University School of Law

8

University of Oregon School of Law

9

Samford University Cumberland School of Law

10

Northwestern University School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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University of the District of Columbia School of Law

2

Northeastern University School of Law

3

CUNY Law School at Queens College School of Law

4

Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law

5

American University Washington College of Law

6

Vermont Law School

7

University of Oregon School of Law

8

Boalt Hall School of Law (University of California–Berkeley)

9

New York University School of Law

10

University of Maine School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Regent University School of Law

2

Ave Maria School of Law

3

Brigham Young University J. Rueben Clark Law School

4

George Mason University School of Law

5

University of Notre Dame Law School

6

Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center

7

University of Alabama School of Law

8

Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law

9

Texas Tech University School of Law

10

University of Mississippi School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Howard University School of Law

2

St. Thomas University School of Law

3

University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Law

4

Florida International University College of Law

5

University of Southern California Law School

6

Northwestern University School of Law

7

American University Washington College of Law

8

Santa Clara University School of Law

9

Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Law Center

10

University of the District of Columbia School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Amherst College

2

Williams College

3

Pomona College

4

Wellesley College

5

Grinnell College

6

Swarthmore College

7

Middlebury College

8

Smith College

9

Macalester College

10

Claremont McKenna College

11

Colgate University

12

Wabash College

13

Carleton College

14

Bowdoin College

15

Lyon College

16

Agnes Scott College

17

Centre College

18

Hamilton College

19

Vassar College

20

Haverford College

21

Harvey Mudd College

22

Mount Holyoke College

23

Trinity College

24

Wesleyan University

25

Bryn Mawr College

26

Cornell College

27

University of Richmond

28

DePauw University

29

Oberlin College

30

Wofford College

31

Transylvania University

32

Thomas Aquinas College

33

Reed College

34

Austin College

35

Barnard College

36

Occidental College

37

Beloit College

38

Washington and Lee University

39

Colorado College

40

Bates College

Source: U.S. News

Methodology:

These rankings were based on three variables:

 

1. Ratio of quality to price: A school’s overall score in the America’s Best Colleges 2009 edition of the rankings was divided by the 2007-2008 academic year net cost to a student receiving the average need-based scholarship or grant. The higher the ratio of a school’s America’s Best Colleges 2009 edition rank to the discounted total cost less the average 2007-2008 academic year need-based scholarship or grant, the better the value. Total cost equals the sum of 2007-2008 academic year tuition, room and board, fees, books, and other expenses, including transportation.

 

2. Percentage of all undergraduates receiving need-based scholarships or grants during the 2007-2008 academic year.

 

3. Average discount: percentage of a school’s 2007-2008 total costs (tuition, room and board, fees, books, and other expenses) covered by the 2007-2008 academic year average need-based scholarship or grant to undergraduates.

 

Note: In the case of public institutions, 2007-2008 out-of-state tuition and percentage of out-of-state students receiving need-based scholarship or grants were used in all calculations.

 

Only those schools ranked in, or near, the top half of their America’s Best Colleges categories were considered. The schools’ overall Best Values ranks were determined by first standardizing the scores achieved by every school in each of the three above variables and weighting those scores. The ratio of quality to price accounted for 60 percent of the overall score; the percentage of all undergraduates receiving need-based grants accounted for 25 percent; and the average discount accounted for 15 percent. The school with the highest total weighted points became No. 1 in its category. The other schools were then ranked in descending order. Schools with the same rank are tied.

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CUNY Law School at Queens College School of Law

2

Lewis and Clark College Northwestern School of Law

3

University of the District of Columbia School of Law

4

Seattle University School of Law

5

William Mitchell College of Law

6

Willamette University College of Law

7

Georgia State University College of Law

8

Hamline University School of Law

9

University of New Mexico School of Law

10

University of Utah College of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School

2

Baylor University School of Law

3

Whittier College School of Law

4

St. Thomas University School of Law

5

Roger Williams University School of Law

6

Thomas M. Cooley Law School Law Program

7

St. John’s University School of Law

8

Albany Law School of Union University Law Program

9

Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law

10

St. Mary’s University School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Loyola Law School

2

Duke University School of Law

3

Stanford Law School

4

Vanderbilt University School of Law

5

Boston University School of Law

6

University of Chicago Law School

7

Chapman University School of Law

8

University of Michigan Law School

9

Georgetown University Law Center

10

Northwestern University School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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Amherst College

1

Williams College

3

Swarthmore College

4

Wellesley College

5

Middlebury College

6

Bowdoin College

6

Pomona College

8

Carleton College

9

Davidson College

10

Haverford College

11

Claremont McKenna College

11

Vassar College

13

Wesleyan University

14

Grinnell College

14

Harvey Mudd College

14

United States Military Academy

17

Washington and Lee University

18

Colgate University

18

Smith College

20

Hamilton College

20

Oberlin College

22

United States Naval Academy

23

Bryn Mawr College

23

Colby College

25

Bates College

25

Macalester College

27

Barnard College

27

Mount Holyoke College

27

Scripps College

30

Bucknell University

30

Colorado College

32

Kenyon College

33

Trinity College

33

University of Richmond

35

College of the Holy Cross

35

Lafayette College

37

Bard College

37

Furman University

37

Occidental College

37

Whitman College

41

Sewanee–University of the South

42

Connecticut College

42

Franklin and Marshall College

42

Union College

45

Centre College

45

Dickinson College

47

Skidmore College

47

St. Olaf College

49

DePauw University

49

Gettysburg College

49

Pitzer College

49

Rhodes College

53

Denison University

54

Reed College

54

Wabash College

56

Lawrence University

56

Wheaton College

58

St. Lawrence University

58

Wheaton College

60

Agnes Scott College

60

Beloit College

60

Illinois Wesleyan University

60

Kalamazoo College

60

Thomas Aquinas College

60

Willamette University

60

Wofford College

67

Earlham College

68

Berea College

68

Hobart and William Smith Colleges

68

Southwestern University

71

Austin College

71

Drew University

71

Lewis and Clark College

71

Muhlenberg College

71

St. John’s University

71

Virginia Military Institute

77

College of Wooster

77

Hendrix College

77

Spelman College

77

Transylvania University

81

Birmingham-Southern College

81

University of Puget Sound

81

Ursinus College

84

College of St. Benedict

84

Millsaps College

84

St. Mary’s College of Maryland

84

Sweet Briar College

88

Augustana College

88

Cornell College

88

Gustavus Adolphus College

88

Hope College

88

Knox College

88

Luther College

94

Allegheny College

94

Lake Forest College

94

New College of Florida

94

Washington College

98

Coe College

98

Hampden-Sydney College

98

Hanover College

98

Hillsdale College

98

Hollins University

98

Juniata College

104

Albion College

104

Bennington College

104

Hampshire College

104

Presbyterian College

104

St. Mary’s College

104

St. Michael’s College

104

Washington and Jefferson College

111

Goucher College

111

Lyon College

111

Ohio Wesleyan University

111

Westmont College

115

Calvin College

115

Stonehill College

115

Susquehanna University

118

Berry College

118

Linfield College

118

Randolph College

118

Siena College

122

Central College

122

St. John’s College

122

Westminster College

Source: U.S. News

Methodology:

The U.S. News rankings system rests on two pillars. It relies on quantitative measures that education experts have proposed as reliable indicators of academic quality, and it’s based on our nonpartisan view of what matters in education.

 

How does the methodology work? First, schools are categorized by mission, derived from the basic Carnegie classification, and, in some cases, by region.

 

The national universities offer a full range of undergraduate majors, plus master’s and Ph.D. programs, and emphasize faculty research. The liberal arts colleges focus almost exclusively on undergraduate education. They award at least 50 percent of their degrees in the arts and sciences. The universities-master’s offer a broad scope of undergraduate degrees and some master’s degree programs but few, if any, doctoral programs. The baccalaureate colleges focus on undergraduate education but grant fewer than 50 percent of their degrees in liberal arts disciplines. The baccalaureate colleges include institutions where at least 10 percent of the undergraduate degrees awarded are bachelor’s degrees. The universities-master’s and baccalaureate colleges categories are further subdivided by geography—North, South, Midwest, and West.

 

Next, we gather data from each college for up to 15 indicators of academic excellence. Each factor is assigned a weight that reflects our judgment about how much a measure matters. Finally, the colleges in each category are ranked against their peers, based on their composite weighted score.

 

Schools are unranked and listed separately for America’s Best Colleges 2009 if they have indicated that they don’t use the SAT or ACT in admission decisions for first-time, first-year, degree-seeking applicants (or, in a few cases, if they didn’t receive enough responses on the peer assessment survey to allow us to use their peer score as part of the overall ranking). Other schools were unranked for the following reasons: a total enrollment of fewer than 200 students; a vast proportion of nontraditional students; no first-year students (these are sometimes called upper-division schools). We did not rank private, for-profit universities; nor did we rank a few specialized schools in arts, business, or engineering.

 

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Howard University School of Law

2

Florida International University College of Law

3

Southern University and Agricultural and Mechanical College Law Center

4

CUNY Law School at Queens College School of Law

5

University of Hawaii at Manoa School of Law

6

University of the District of Columbia School of Law

7

North Carolina Central University School of Law

8

Northern Illinois University College of Law

9

Loyola Law School

10

University of New Mexico School of Law

Source: Princeton Review

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