For almost as long as the survey has been issued, Yale has been at the top of the chart, and Harvard has been number two.
HLS shrugs off the ranking.
"We don't run a law school based on a magazine. Our ranking has been the same for the last 10 years. If it didn't matter to us 10 years ago, it doesn't matter to us now," says Michael J. Chmura, spokesperson for HLS. "We think we're the best law school in the country."
Does size matter?
But, despite the difference in the size of the student population, HLS does not hire many more professors. In 1998 HLS had a student to faculty ratio of 20 to 1, compared to 9 to 1 for YLS.
Improving this ratio has been a goal for HLS, and the ratio has dropped significantly from previous years. In the 1986-87 academic year the ratio was 26 to 1. HLS now has more faculty than it ever has in its history.
According to many, the small number of students at YLS, only 573 this year, provides many advantages over Harvard's larger student body.
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