Drop in rank rattles school

Megan Twohey reports in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel on Marquette Law School and the this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings.

The school had been hanging to the bottom of the second tier by a thin string (last year it landed in a three-way tie for 100, the last rank in the tier). This year, the string broke, and the school tumbled into the third tier, in which schools receive no numerical ranking.

[Joseph] Kearney, who has served as dean for three years, insists the drop must have been small. His assumption is likely correct; the director of data research at U.S. News suggests that the school had fallen a single ranking to 101.