Joseph Kearney, dean of Marquette University Law School, is adamant: His school is on the rise.
Sit down with the animated, ruddy-faced native of Chicago’s south side and he’ll point to numerous signs of success. So it was with much frustration that Kearney received this spring’s edition of the controversial yet influential U.S. News & World Report college rankings, in which Marquette’s law school dropped from the second to third tier.
This year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison tied Fordham University for 32nd, which placed it in the top tier.