Three Texas law schools saw major gains this year in their positions on the U.S.News & World Report annual rankings. The deans at each of the schools the University of Houston Law Center, St. Mary’s University School of Law in San Antonio and South Texas College of Law in Houston say those gains likely are due to changes in the way the magazine weighs employment statistics in a school’s overall rating.
"If you look at the numbers and you sort of see who’s gone where, our guess is that employment has been a big factor and it should be a big factor," says Richard Alderman, UH Law’s interim dean. "Students do not go to law school just to get a good education; they want to get a good education and get a job. And we’re doing that very well."
