By WSJ.com

The U.S. News & World Report law-school rankings has, throughout the years, caused law schools to do all kinds of things to improve their standings, including funneling lower-ranking admitted students into part-time programs to avoid dragging averages down. (Click here for a 2008 WSJ story on that phenomenon, by Amir Efrati.)

According to this piece in the National Jurist, another little gymnastic performed by the schools isn’t, well, all that small: Schools have increased their faculty size by 40 percent over the past 10 years, partly in order to bring their student-faculty ratios down and thereby gain a hike up the U.S. News rankings. The NJ’s full survey will be released later in the month. (Hat Tip: ABA Journal)

According to the piece, this move — big surprise! — has led to a huge tuition hike as well: a 74 percent increase at private schools and a 102 percent at public institutions.

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