Rankings in the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Graduate Schools" are based on student selectivity, placement success, faculty resources, and separate measures of institutional reputation. Having three programs ranked in the top ten puts Oregon Law in an elite group with schools such as Harvard University, Northwestern University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Schools having more than three programs ranked in the top ten include Georgetown University, American University, New York University, University of Maryland, and Stanford University. One-hundred eighty-four accredited programs were surveyed in order to gather the information used in the rankings.