Hoosier medical and law schools ranked among best in U.S.

U.S. News & World Report has unveiled its 2023 lists of the Best Medical Schools and Best Law Schools, and several universities in Indiana made the lists. The publication said Thursday that this year’s rankings placed greater emphasis on the results that the schools can deliver.

For the Best Law Schools ranking, nearly 60% of the methodology to determine the list was based on the schools’ successful placement of graduates and bar passage. Other indicators for the ranking include quality assessment, selectivity and faculty and library resources.

The University of Notre Dame is the highest-ranking Indiana school on the list at No. 27. The Maurer School of Law at Indiana University Bloomington ranks No. 45, followed by the McKinney School of Law at IU Indianapolis No. 99.

Stanford University tops this year’s ranking, followed by Yale University and the University of Chicago.

The Best Medical Schools ranking was split into two lists: Research and Primary Care.

The publication said both lists evaluate schools on faculty resources, the academic achievements of entering students and qualitative assessments by schools and residency directors.

The Research list included measures for total federal research activity, total federal research activity per faculty member, total NIH research grants at the medical school and its affiliated hospitals, and average NIH research grants per faculty.

The Primary Care list also included measures for medical school graduates participating in primary care specialties or primary care residencies.

The IU School of Medicine in Indianapolis is the only Hoosier representative on both the Research and Primary Care rankings, coming in at No. 42 and No. 19, respectively.

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