2021 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

The new 2021 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 188 law schools (the faculty survey had a 58% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	Score	School
1	4.7	UC-Berkeley
2	4.6	Stanford
3	4.4	NYU
4	4.0	Santa Clara
5	3.8	George Washington
5	3.8	Houston
5	3.8	New Hampshire
8	3.7	Texas A&M
8	3.7	Penn
10	3.6	American
10	3.6	Boston University
12	3.5	Duke
13	3.4	Columbia
13	3.4	Georgetown
13	3.4	Chicago-Kent
13	3.4	Michigan
13	3.4	Cardozo
18	3.3	Harvard
18	3.3	Texas
18	3.3	Washington
21	3.2	Fordham
21	3.2	Indiana (Maurer)
21	3.2	Northeastern
21	3.2	Northwestern
25	3.1	UC-Irvine
25	3.1	UCLA
25	3.1	Colorado
25	3.1	Notre Dame
25	3.1	Richmond
25	3.1	Vanderbilt
31	3.0	Boston College
31	3.0	George Mason
31	3.0	Loyola-L.A.
31	3.0	San Diego
31	3.0	Virginia
36	2.9	DePaul
36	2.9	Emory
36	2.9	UC-Davis
36	2.9	UIC-John Marshall
40	2.8	Case Western
40	2.8	Cornell
40	2.8	Ohio State
40	2.8	Chicago
40	2.8	Minnesota
45	2.7	Loyola-Chicago
45	2.7	Suffolk
45	2.7	UC-Hastings
45	2.7	Villanova
45	2.7	Washington Univ.
45	2.7	William & Mary

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