LOS ANGELES — The University of California, Berkeley Law School announced Thursday it would withdraw from U.S. News & World Report's closely watched evaluations of higher education institutions, saying the ratings' methodology penalizes schools that encourage public service and low costs.
The decision by Berkeley, one of the nation's top law schools, marks another blow to the influential ratings service after Harvard and Yale took similar action on Wednesday citing U.S. News' methodology.
"Although rankings are inevitable and inevitably have some arbitrary features, there are aspects of the U.S. News rankings that are profoundly inconsistent with our values and public mission," UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said in a statement.
