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The article highlights how multiple schools improved affordability and employment outcomes, often by expanding scholarship support and reducing debt burden. It reviews key examples across public and private institutions, then summarizes performance across tuition, living costs, debt, employment, and bar passage results.","BEST VALUE LAW SCHOOLS  \nUniversity of Georgia takes the top spot again, but a host of schools are adding value as well. Several have managed to cut debt, an issue that’s a major concern for students—and politicians.  \nBy Mike Stetz  \nFinishing first back-to-back in anything is tough, be it the NFL, the Daytona 500, the World Series of Poker or the National Stone Skipping Contest. (Yes, it’s a thing.)  \nYou know what else is tough? Capturing the title of Best Value Law School two years in a row. Ever since the law school crisis hit and law schools suffered a barrage of criticism over cost and performance results, the quest to add more value to a legal education has intensified. And it has not ended, not by a long shot.  \nThe nation’s law schools continue to look for ways to improve affordability as well as academic and employment outcomes. Even if the worst is over when it comes to legal education’s slide, the competition for students still remains fierce. And, what many of them want is no secret.  \nThey want value.  \nUniversity of Georgia School of Law continues to lead the nation’s law schools in providing it. As it did last year, the Athens, Ga., school — acting like a certain New England football team — finished first in our annual ranking of Best Value Law Schools.  \nHow? Well, how about this:  \nUniversity of Georgia lowered its average student debt nearly $5,000 from last year. This year’s typical University of Georgia law grad owed $77,269 . The school also improved its ultimate bar passage rate to anearly perfect 97%. Yes, tuition went up—by a whopping $12.  \n“I feel our school has a clear sense of mission, and that is to create the best possible return on investment in legal educa-  \ntion,” said Dean Peter “Bo” Rutledge.“And that’s a mission that resonates with our faculty and staff, our alumni and our students and their families who are concerned about debt and getting jobs.”  \nThe school consistently looks at ways to reduce costs, he said, especially for students who come from challenging backgrounds, such as rural or underserved areas, as well as veterans and first-generation college graduates.  \n“This is why we do the work,” he said, noting how rewarding it is to see such students thrive in his law school and knowing they’ll be both employable and not drowning in debt upon graduation.  \nIn this year’s entering class, all first-generation college graduates are getting scholarship help. All veterans are getting scholar-  \nship aid too.  \nUniversity of Georgia was not alone in improving its value.  \nSeven schools on this year’s list had six-figure student debt levels last year but knocked the amount below that muchhyped mark this year. Leading the way was Boston College Law School, which reduced its average student debt by nearly $33,000 to $80,000 .  \nIndeed, only three schools on this year’s list of 58 schools have student debt levels greater than $100,000 .  \nGeorgia State University College of Law in Atlanta has the lowest debt of any school on the list. At $50,902, it’s nearly a $6,000 drop from the year before.  \nNew Jersey’s Rutgers Law School saw the greatest percentage in debt decline, going from $80,000 to $55,023 for a 31% drop. Liberty University School of Law also saw a significant decrease, with debt falling from $77,000 to $61,295 . That helped land the private law school, based in Lynchburg, Va., on the Best Value list for the first time, with an A-ranking.  \nIn all, 13 of the top 25 schools on the list managed to cut debt. That’s significant because students appear to be growing more debt averse all the time. They have heard the horror stories of how hard it can be to pay off big debts.  \nOne poster [on TopLawSchools.com](on TopLawSchools.com)[ ](on TopLawSchools.com)[wrote:](wrote:) “Massive debt can drastically impact mental health. There have been posts here over the years of people being depressed or even suicidal because of unemployment and debt. 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