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Thursday, April 23, 2009

New 2010 U.S. News Tax Rankings

The new 2010 U.S. News Law School Tax Rankings were released today:

1. NYU (#1 last year)
2. Florida (#2)
2. Georgetown (#3)
4. Northwestern (#4)
5. Harvard (#6)
6. Boston University (#8)
6. Miami (#6)
6. UCLA (#5)
9. Michigan (#10)
10. Stanford (#13)
11. San Diego (#16)
11. Virginia (#9)
13. Columbia (#19)
13. Texas (#10)
15. Chicago (#17)
16. Loyola-L.A. (#13)
17. Chapman (unranked)
17. Penn (#19)
19. Denver (#19)
19. SMU (#22)
19. U. Washington (#15)
19. Yale (#10)
23. Boston College (unranked)
23. George Washington (unranked)

The upward moves from last year in the overall tax rankings are:

+6 Columbia (#13)
+5 San Diego (#11)
+3 Stanford (#10)
+3 SMU (#19)
+2 Boston University (#6)
+2 Chicago (#15)
+2 Penn (#17)
+1 Georgetown (#2)
+1 Harvard (#5)
+1 Michigan (#9)
Chapman, Boston College, and George Washington were unranked last year and rank #17, #23, and #23, respectively, this year

The downward moves from last year in the overall tax rankings are:

-9 Yale (#19)
-4 U. Washington (#19)
-3 Texas (#13)
-3 Loyola-L.A. (#16)
-2 Virginia (#11)
-1 UCLA (#6)
Duke, USC, and Villanova ranked #18, #22, and #22, respectively, last year and are unranked this year

Here are the rankings of the graduate tax programs:

1. NYU (#1 last year)
2. Florida (#2)
2. Georgetown (#3)
4. Northwestern (#4)
5. Boston University (#6)
5. Miami (#5)
7. San Diego (#9)
8. Loyola-L.A. (#7)
9. Chapman (unranked)
10. Denver (#10)
10. SMU (#11)
10. U. Washington (#8)

The upward moves from last year in the graduate tax program rankings are:

+2 San Diego (#7)
+1 Georgetown (#2)
+1 Boston University (#5)
+1 SMU (#10)
Chapman was unranked last year and ranks #9 this year

The downward moves from last year in the graduate tax program rankings are:

- 2 U. Washington (#10)
- 1 Loyola-L.A. (#8)
Villanova was ranked #11 last year and is unranked this year

For the 2009 U.S. News Tax Rankings, see here.

https://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2009/04/new-2009-us.html