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September 14, 2007
School of Law Ranked in Top 10 for Best Value in the Nation
As costs of attending professional schools skyrocket and admission standards increase, Texas Tech’s School of Law remains accessible as one of the nations’ best values – national sources say so!
Written by Leslie Cranford
Texas Tech School of Law was the only one of Texas’ nine law schools ranked in the top 25. Click to enlarge.
Texas Tech University’s School of Law is ranked ninth in the nation in a Best Value ranking of America’s nearly 200 law schools. The list was recently released by the National Jurist and preLaw magazines.
The Best Value ranking is based on three factors: the law school’s annual tuition costs; the school’s bar passage rate above the state average; and an employment rate for the school’s graduates that exceeded 85 percent within nine months after graduation. Texas Tech School of Law was the only one of Texas’ nine law schools ranked in the top 25.
Walter Huffman, dean of the law school, said that he was gratified but not surprised by Texas Tech Law’s top ten ranking.
“We either lead or are among the leaders annually in the state in bar passage rate with an average historical passing rate of 90 percent against a statewide average in the mid-70th percentile,” Huffman noted. “Employers consistently tell me they love to hire Texas Tech law graduates because they are well prepared to practice law – and 98 percent of our graduates were hired within nine months of graduation last year.”
Aside from the three criteria of the rankings, keeping law school accessible is also one of Huffman’s priorities.
“We work hard at keeping our tuition relatively low compared to other law schools because we do not want to deny the opportunity to pursue a top-flight legal education to qualified persons who have limited financial means,” Huffman said. “It is gratifying to see that philosophy – and the extraordinary quality of our law school – recognized by important national publications.”
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