Law School Tuition Index:

The public interest spending vs. tuition index would compare individual law schools based on the total amount and the percentage of tuition dollars they put back into public interest-promoting activities, such as loan forgiveness, post-graduate fellowships, summer public interest stipends and other programs that directly benefit students' abilities to work in the public interest. This could be a clear and graphic way of publicizing and even shaming law schools that charge high tuition rates but do not use those tuition dollars to truly benefit their students or the public interest. Using dollars spent as the metric would be an easy (if rough) way of quanitfying a school's commitment to public interest. Given recent media attention around the high cost of legal education, it would also potentially resonate with the public more than a perhaps more subjective index about the quality or how students feel about other public interest programming at their law schools.