If your goal is to land a Big Law job (and let’s be honest, why else are you reading this?), Columbia Law School is the place to be. So say goodbye to your sweetie, pack up your duffel, and take the #1 train over to Morningside Heights.
According to The National Law Journal, Columbia has regained its former glory: Despite a plummeting applicant pool—down 27 percent since 2008—Columbia is the big winner among law schools in the annual Big Law job sweepstakes. It bumped out the University of Pennsylvania Law School from the top spot (which held it for the last two years) based on percentage of graduates who landed at NLJ 250 law firms in 2013.
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