At least in this one ranking, Harvard Law School isn’t all that
With its famed reputation, wealth of Supreme Court justices, and high-powered faculty, Harvard Law School consistently ranks in the elite category of law school programs. But a new ranking from GraduatePrograms.com is cooler on the Crimson.
The online grad school guide asked 10,000 current and former law students to rank their school’s faculty, peer, and alumni networks on a 1-10 scale, according to Business Insider. GraduatePrograms.com took the average, and then ipso facto — that’s a fancy legal term for “by that fact itself’’ – ranked the law schools on their networking abilities.
University of Florida takes the top spot with a 9.90 averaged rating, while law schools at Yale and Stanford follow closely behind.
Harvard, though, comes in a surprising eigth place, sandwiched between University of Houston Law Center and University of Southern California Gould School of Law.
Boston College Law School fares comparatively well in these networking rankings at 12th place, well above its U.S. News & World Report ranking of 34th place.
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Networking isn’t everything, of course. Remember: It’s not who you know. It’s what you know.
That’s how the quote goes, right?
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