Here in Dallas, we're witnessing a fascinating experiment: take a really shitty law school, give it a more respectable name and see what happens.
Texas A&M University had been trying to open or acquire a law school for years. Back in 1998 they tried to buy the South Texas College of Law, but the Texas Higher Education killed the deal. In 2013 they inked a deal to acquire the Texas Wesleyan School of Law. For those of you who are not familiar with Texas law schools, Texas Wesleyan was arguably the worst law school in Texas and easily the second worst. The school was rank not published, and a low RNP at that. It was an absolutely terrible law school with a horrible reputation. Texas Wesleyan became the Texas A&M University School of Law in 2015. In the last five years, the change in raking for Texas A&M law has been huuuuge!
2015--Rank Not Published.
2016--149
2017--111
2018--92
2019--80
This rise in rank illustrates how ridiculous the US News rankings are. Nothing at this law school changed except the name. What a joke.
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