2021 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings

The new 2021 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 188 law schools (the faculty survey had a 44% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	Score	School
1	4.7	Columbia
1	4.7	Chicago
3	4.6	Harvard
3	4.6	NYU
3	4.6	UC-Berkeley
6	4.5	Stanford
6	4.5	Penn
8	4.4	Michigan
8	4.4	Texas
8	4.4	Yale
11	4.3	UCLA
11	4.3	Virginia
13	4.2	Georgetown
13	4.2	Northwestern
15	4.1	Cornell
15	4.1	Duke
17	3.9	Vanderbilt
18	3.8	Boston University
18	3.8	North Carolina
18	3.8	USC
21	3.7	Minnesota
21	3.7	Washington University
23	3.6	Emory
23	3.6	Fordham
23	3.6	Indiana (Maurer)
23	3.6	Ohio State
23	3.6	UC-Davis
23	3.6	Illinois
29	3.5	Boston College
29	3.5	Alabama
29	3.5	UC-Irvine
29	3.5	Wisconsin
29	3.5	William & Mary
34	3.4	Brooklyn
34	3.4	George Washington
34	3.4	Tulane
34	3.4	Houston
34	3.4	Notre Dame
39	3.3	BYU
39	3.3	Florida State
39	3.3	Florida
39	3.3	Georgia
39	3.3	Utah
39	3.3	Washington
39	3.3	Wake Forest
46	3.2	Arizona
46	3.2	UC-Hastings
46	3.2	Iowa
46	3.2	Maryland
46	3.2	Miami

2021 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

• Omnibus Specialty Rankings (compilation of all 13 specialty rankings)
• Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
• Business/Corporate Law
• Clinical Law
• Constitutional Law
• Contracts/Commercial Law
• Criminal Law
• Dispute Resolution 
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Intellectual Property Law
• International Law
• Legal Writing
• Tax Law
• Trial Advocacy