Fun With Real Numbers
The ABA has its law school data in an excel spreadsheet format here (scroll to the bottom, and HT to Leiter). Those who are more versed in using excel than I am can probably have their own fun with it, but here are some calculations.
Out of close 200 schools, we have the 17th highest cost of living. The highest belongs to University of Missori-KC at $25,000 a year off campus.
We have the 20th highest net transfer (37 in, 17 out). On the gross, we are 11th. GULC admits 100 transfers it looks like. What a monstrosity.
And our student to faculty ratio is 165th. But because we use lecturers so heavily, our course offering is 9th!!! I created my own statistic of students per course (dividing total students from sheet 2 by total courses beyond first year from sheet one) to create a ratio that's a bit more meaningful. Although we ranked 37th, the only reputable schools ahead of us were Cornell, Northwestern, and Southern Methodist. At least our course offerings are plentiful (even though three students enroll in EU law while the second coming of Christ is required to deal with the waitlist for Bundy's CPII).
Feel free to play around if you're bored, or tell me if my numbers are wrong. Just as a warning, their excel file is a bit funny with sorting.
Out of close 200 schools, we have the 17th highest cost of living. The highest belongs to University of Missori-KC at $25,000 a year off campus.
We have the 20th highest net transfer (37 in, 17 out). On the gross, we are 11th. GULC admits 100 transfers it looks like. What a monstrosity.
And our student to faculty ratio is 165th. But because we use lecturers so heavily, our course offering is 9th!!! I created my own statistic of students per course (dividing total students from sheet 2 by total courses beyond first year from sheet one) to create a ratio that's a bit more meaningful. Although we ranked 37th, the only reputable schools ahead of us were Cornell, Northwestern, and Southern Methodist. At least our course offerings are plentiful (even though three students enroll in EU law while the second coming of Christ is required to deal with the waitlist for Bundy's CPII).
Feel free to play around if you're bored, or tell me if my numbers are wrong. Just as a warning, their excel file is a bit funny with sorting.
Labels: Rankings And Associated Bullshit
posted by Armen Adzhemyan at 2:35 PM
8 Comments:
185 students transferred out of Cooley.
I'm sorry, any document that suggests that the cost of living is $25,000 a year in Kansas City, and that this is higher than the cost of living at NYU, Stanford, UCLA... seriously?
I mean, it's wrong on its face. And if it's wrong on that, how many more errors does it have?
I echo what Tom said - that makes absolutely not sense.
Didn't only one member of the Class of 2007 transfer out after 1L year?
Tom has to be right. Kansas City is just not that expensive. I have been there many times and know people who live there. It is not nearly as expensive as the Bay Area.
Yeah, my guess is that the school lists costs of living as $25K so that students can request extra financial aid/loans.
Btw it seems like rankings will be coming out soon...
8:22, I know of at least 2, one to stanford and another to nyu. But that's definitely far less than 17.
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