Originally Posted by Unregistered

Who says rankings doesn’t matter? I quote from an article in Today newspaper: The high-powered panel proposed that the list of approved UK law schools be “reviewed and updated to better reflect the current rankings of UK law schools”.
Let’s give an example, China and India are two biggest countries in the world. They have countless law schools, but you don’t see a lot of these appearing in the rankings. Are their home countries going to delist them by virtue of not being ranked? Same for the British universities delisted or other non ranked law schools in UK - they are widely recognized for purpose of admission in the UK. Being recognized by a regulator is just one part of the equation. It also depends a lot on international visibility, recognition by multiple jurisdictions (and the best way for that is to look at international rankings). When NUS broke the top 20 rankings in the world, it was highly publicized. Same for NTU. When LSE/UCL graduates choose to go over to London to study (over their NUS/SMU counterparts), they make a choice despite being offered a place at NUS/SMU because of prestige and exposure as well as international standing. Otherwise, there is no reason to study overseas.