USC School of Law moves up 12 places in US News & World Report’s annual rankings - The State
The University of South Carolina School of Law has moved up 12 places in the annual rankings of the nation’s law schools by U.S. News & Word Report.
The USC School of Law is now ranked 84th, and it is tied with St. John’s University law school in Queens, New York.
It’s most recent highest ranking came in 2017, when it ranked 87th. USC School of Law, which has 632 students, had been rated 96th.
South Carolina’s only other law school, the Charleston School of Law, ranked 147th.
Most of the state’s 10,000-plus lawyers and hundreds of judges are graduates of the USC law school.
Law School Dean William Hubbard said Wednesday, “This law school is on the rise, and we will continue to advance in the years to come.”
Hubbard added, “I am so proud of the work of our faculty, staff, and students in lifting the law school 12 places in the rankings. The superb scholarly productivity of our faculty, their dedicated teaching, and the quality of our students — and their hard work — have led to higher bar passage and improved employment outcomes.
“Our staff also deserves great credit for guiding our students and communicating the accomplishments of our faculty and students. It has been a team effort, ” Hubbard said.
In 2020, when being interviewed by law school alumni for the dean’s job, Hubbard indicated that improving the law school’s ranking would be one of his goals and that he — as a former president of the American Bar Association — might be able to do that.
“What I might bring to the table as dean would be to take advantage of my national network of relationships at other law firms to make pitches and call them up and say, ‘Hey let me talk to you about this law school, how good it is, and let me introduce you to some of our faculty members who are doing world-class work,’ “ said Hubbard.
“We are basically a secret on the national scale,” said Hubbard at that time. He was named dean in June 2020.
In the years before Hubbard was hired, the school ranked as 91st and 96th.
The magazine’s rankings are based on law schools’ successful placement of graduates, faculty resources and academic achievements of entering students.
Part of the ranking is subjective because the magazine seeks opinions from law schools, lawyers and judges about the quality of individual law schools
There are 192 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association.
The nation’s three top-rated law schools are Yale, Stanford and Columbia, in that order.
This story was originally published March 30, 2022 2:34 PM.
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