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Indiana University – Maurer School of Law (Bloomington)

Ratings Details

Colored bars represent the range of average school ratings. Black line is this school's rating.

Academics

 
0 1 2 3
4
Students
vs. all schools
Minimum
2.25
Mean
3.50
Maximum
4
 
0 1 2 3
4
Alumni
vs. all schools
Minimum
2.4
Mean
3.64
Maximum
4

Practical/Clinical Training

 
0 1 2 3
4
Students
vs. all schools
Minimum
2.14
Mean
2.64
Maximum
3.83
 
0 1 2 3
4
Alumni
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.86
Mean
3.21
Maximum
3.8

Career Counseling

 
0 1 2 3
4
Students
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.29
Mean
2.79
Maximum
3.56
 
0 1 2 3
4
Alumni
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.17
Mean
2.86
Maximum
3.25

Financial Aid Advising

 
0 1 2 3
4
Students
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.5
Mean
2.92
Maximum
3.29
 
0 1 2 3
4
Alumni
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.25
Mean
3.14
Maximum
3.5

Social Life

 
0 1 2 3
4
Students
vs. all schools
Minimum
1.8
Mean
3.14
Maximum
3.67
 
0 1 2 3
4
Alumni
vs. all schools
Minimum
2.4
Mean
3.79
Maximum
3.86

What do these ratings mean?

from Brian Dalton, Breaking Media Director of Research

The ATL School and Firm Insiders Survey asks self-identified current students, alumni, and practicing lawyers to rate major aspects of life at their law school (academics, social life, clinical training, career services, financial aid advising) and/or law firm (compensation, hours, morale, culture, training). We then translate these ratings into letter grades, where the mean score for each particular ratings category is the equivalent of a “B.”

We require a minimum threshold of responses for each institution before we publish any survey-based ratings content. Using a standard formula for statistical validity, we adhere to a threshold that gives us an 85% confidence level and a 10% margin of error. The precise threshold number will of course vary depending on the size of the individual institution. For example, for a law firm of 1,000 attorneys, we would require 50 responses in order to publish ratings for the firm.