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GOOD NEWS FOR TENNESSEE LAW: UT College of Law recognized for value. The UT College of Law has a?

By Glenn Reynolds

GOOD NEWS FOR TENNESSEE LAW: UT College of Law recognized for value.

The UT College of Law has again been ranked a Top 20 Best Value Law School by preLaw magazine. The magazine published by the National Jurist will release the final Top 20 rankings for 2010 in October. . . . Criteria for making the magazine’s Best Value rankings are: having a bar passage rate higher than the state average; an employment rate of at least 85 percent nine months after graduation; in-state tuition less than $35,000 a year; and average student indebtedness below $100,000.

Ours is considerably below $100K, but it’s kind of sad that $100K is considered low.

UPDATE: Reader Chris Fountain emails: “I enrolled at UConn Law in 1978 because it was tuition – free for state residents. Only had Yale moved me off its wait list would I have paid to go to another law school but back then, tuition at Yale was, at most, $10,000? Now I hear tales of UConn grads coming out with $100,000 debts and who knows what the Yalies pay. The latter, at least have a chance of earning enough to repay their debts. Most UConn grads stay in Connecticut, and they’ll never see a salary that will justify $100,000 in debt. What went wrong?” A bubble.

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on August 26, 2010 (boomark / email).