3/15/11-- Boston College Law School has moved up a point to 27th in the 2012 US News and World Report rankings, released today.

On newsstands now, the report ranks ABA-accredited law schools, taking into account a number of measures, including student-faculty ratio, admissions selectivity, employment rates at graduation, bar passage rate, and reputation. BC Law improved in nearly every category this year.

In the US News specialty rankings, BC Law was #15 for Legal Research and Writing, #16 for tax, and #25 when ranked by top law firms.

U.S. News uses a weighted average to determine each school's final placement. A school's score on each indicator was standardized. Then scores were weighted, totaled, and re-scaled so that the top school received 100 and other schools received a percentage of the top score. BC Law received an overall score of 65, up two points from last year.

The full rankings for graduate schools are available online at http://www.usnews.com.