Robert Morse (Director of Data Research, U.S. News & World Report) has announced that the new law school rankings will be released online on March 10 and in hard copy later in March. Here are the current 2015 law school rankings: Overall and Peer Reputation Rankings of 194 Law Schools…

Best Schools For Bar Examination, National Jurist (Feb. 2015): LSAT scores are designed, in part, to predict success on the bar exam. But 33 schools excel above and beyond what their LSAT scores predict. How are these schools bucking the odds? … [W]hich schools are adding the most value to…

Inside Higher Education, Fibbing for Rankings: The University of Missouri at Kansas City gave the Princeton Review false information designed to inflate the rankings of its business school, which was under pressure from its major donor to keep the ratings up, according to an outside audit released Friday. The audit…

Chronicle of Higher Education, College Endowments See Another Year of Growth: The improving economy contributed to a second strong year in a row for colleges’ endowment returns, according to an annual study released on Thursday. Colleges’ endowments returned an average of 15.5 percent in the 2014 fiscal year, up from…

U.S. News & World Report, Data Show Which Top-Ranked Colleges Operate Most Efficiently: Ohio’s Miami University—Oxford took top honors as the most efficient school among National Universities and Michigan’s Hope College was most efficient among National Liberal Arts Colleges in an exclusive U.S. News analysis that compared spending and educational…

Ryan Whalen (Northwestern), The Law Prof Twitter Network: Following recent discussions about the importance of blogging/tweeting to contemporary academia (see: LSE via TaxProf), and Bridget Crawford’s Law Prof Twitter Census (version 3.0) over at TheFacultyLounge, I thought I’d do some number crunching and network building. I wrote a short script…