The U.S. News and World Report has ranked the UALR William H. Bowen School of Law ninth in the nation on an important metric–a metric on which Yale Law School ranked first and Harvard Law School ranked third.
The ten schools on the list had the highest “yield” rates, the percentage of accepted students who chose to enroll at a law school, among the 185 law schools that submitted data to US News.
Of 266 students who were accepted at Bowen, 115 enrolled for the 2015-2016 school year. Bowen therefore received a 43.2 percent yield rate. The average yield rate among all law schools for the fall 2015 class was around 24 percent.
“This ranking reflects Bowen’s growing reputation for providing a quality, affordable, distinctive legal education experience,” said Michael Hunter Schwartz, Dean and Professor of Law at Bowen. “The results show that, if we can get prospective students to really know us, they are extraordinarily likely to choose Bowen. We are a small legal education community that prides itself on the personal connection we have with our students, and our admitted students realize that fact.”
Prospects for Bowen’s fall 2016 class are looking even more promising. The Bowen law school is one of only 13 law schools in the United States that, in the current year, has seen a growth in applications of 20% or more.
For its annual law school rankings, U.S. News surveyed 205 schools using self-reported school data. The yield list is provided to magnify a particular data point that can help students find the right law school for them.
