Florida International University College of Law was named 17th Best Value Law School in the nation by The National Jurist.
The Best Value Law Schools ranking is designed to recognize the law schools where graduates have excellent chances of passing the bar and getting a legal job without taking on a ton of debt.
As such, the Best Value ranking system takes into account a law school’s tuition (weighted 25 percent), students’ average indebtedness upon graduation (15 percent), the employment rate (35 percent), students’ cost of living expenses (10 percent), and bar passage rates (15 percent).
Based on those inputs, the list contains mostly public schools, with only one private school cracking the Top 25. The National Jurist Best Value Top 25 Law Schools:
1 Georgia State University
2 University of Georgia
3 University of Florida
4 University of Wisconsin
5 University of Nebraska
6 University of South Dakota
7 Univ. Arkansas, Fayetteville
8 University of Alabama
9 University of Kentucky
10 University of Oklahoma
11 Rutgers Law
12 University of Montana
13 University of Arizona
14 Brigham Young University
15 University of Iowa
16 Florida State University
17 Florida International University
18 University of Cincinnati
19 Ohio State University
20 Arizona State University
21 University of Missouri
22 University of Mississippi
23 Louisiana State University
24 University of New Mexico
25 Texas Tech University