2/06/04 — Boston College Law School is pleased to announce that the School has been placed among the 10 best Law Schools for the Money list for 2004. The ranking, done by PreLaw Insider and National Jurist Magazines, places BC Law second overall, tops in the “excellent value” category.

“We’re very happy to see our program recognized this way,” said BC Law Dean John H. Garvey. “We have always felt that there is no better place to get a legal education than Boston College Law School. But the true value of a school cannot be found in statistical analysis. This is a tribute to our faculty, staff and students, who bring the best to everything they do.”

The magazines used 6 factors in calculating its “Best Value” honors. The factors included tuition, bar pass rate, unemployment rate of graduates, the median grant as a percentage of tuition, the number of clinical slots available relative to total enrollment, and faculty/student ratio. They used statistics from the ABA-LSAC 2004 Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools.

Schools such as Brigham Young's J. Reuben Clark Law School, Northwestern Law School, and Yale Law School were also mentioned in the ‘excellent’ and ‘very good’ value list for private schools. The schools were chosen nation-wide and were graded on a 3.0 scale.