Yale, Harvard, UChicago Produce Most Yale Law School Professors

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<p>I’ve started to look at where the faculty of various departments at the top schools got their degrees (undergraduate and graduate.)</p>

<p>I started with Yale Law School (partly because it is ranked #1 by U.S. news, whether or not this is ‘correct’–but also because I wanted to see how UChicago grads do at institutions other than UChicago.)</p>

<p>Below is a count of the number of Yale Law professors who have degrees from each school. (Many people went to more than one school–so if someone went to UChicago and Yale, for instance, both schools got credit.)</p>

<p>Number of Yale Law Professors who Have Degrees from the Following Schools:</p>

<p>[Faculty</a> | Yale Law School](<a href=“| Yale Law School”>Our Faculty | Yale Law School)</p>

<p>School Total
Yale 44
Harvard 26
UChicago 10
Oxford 7
Princeton 7
Columbia 5
Cambridge 4
Stanford 3
Cornell 3
Dartmouth 3
Michigan 3
MIT 2
Berkeley 2
Virginia 2
Brown 2
Washington 2
Georgetown 1
Naval 1
Ljubljana 1
Zagreb 1
Hamilton College 1
Arizona 1
Arizona State 1
Oberlin 1
Davidson 1
Emory 1
Middlebury 1
London 1
Missouri 1
Amherst 1
Williams 1
Indiana 1
Nebraska 1
LSE 1
Edinburgh 1
Tulane 1
Illinois 1
Hebrew 1
NYU 1
Bryn Mawr 1
Rochester 1
Antioch 1
Wellesley 1
Texas 1
Bates 1
George Washington 1
Rutgers 1
Johns Hopkins 1
Washington U. 1
UCLA 1</p>

<p>I counted full-time faculty (including emeritus and those on leave) but did not include visiting profs or adjuncts. (My hunch is the overall results wouldn’t change much if you added the latter.)</p>

<p>Yale claims a full-time faculty of ‘more than 60’ and I counted 77 or so.</p>

<p>I’ll look at other schools and departments in the future.</p>

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<p>If you or someone else could do a thorough review and include all the professors in those top 10 law schools, including Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, etc., and if the results show the same trend, then your claim will be more persuasive.</p>

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<p>Only two (2) are graduates of the College of the University of Chicago as compared to dozens from Harvard College and Yale College. Is OP’s point that BA/BS’s from the U. of C. are not as smart as the rest of the alumni?</p>

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<p>And how do students at other universities do?</p>

<p>Actually a study shows that UChicago undergrads have much better grammar and are better writers than students at Harvard and Yale. So we know UChicago students are MUCH smarter than the dummies in Cambridge and New Haven.</p>

<p>[U&lt;/a&gt;. of C. has the best writers, according to Grammarly survey - RedEye Chicago](<a href=“U. of C. has the best writers, according to Grammarly survey”>U. of C. has the best writers, according to Grammarly survey)</p>

<p>This is simply an analysis of hiring trends. All schools favor their own grads substantially.</p>

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<p>Truth123 asked: “And how do students at other universities do?”</p>

<p>At least at Yale Law, Yale undergrad and Harvard undergrad appear to do quite well. I imagine the same will hold true for most of the other law schools you may study. In fact, I believe Yale and Harvard are the most represented schools (both for law and undergrad) on UChicago Law’s faculty.</p>

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