2021 World Law School Rankings

Quacquarelli Symonds has released the 2021 World Law School Rankings as part of its World University Rankings. The methodology is 50% academic reputation, 30% employer reputation, 15% h-index per faculty member, and 5% citations per paper.  The rankings consist of 320 law schools, 50 in the United States.  Here are the U.S. law schools, along with each school's position in the latest SSRN Top 750 Law School Faculty Rankings -- Total Downloads):

QS Ranking	School	SSRN Ranking
1	Harvard	1
4	Yale	4
5	Stanford	2
7	Columbia	6
8	NYU	3
9	UC-Berkeley	5
11	Chicago	7
19	Georgetown	9
26	UCLA	15
30	Michigan	13
31	Pennsylvania	11
32	Duke	18
38	Cornell	27
46	Virginia	20
49	Northwestern	14
75	George Washington	8
98	Boston University	30
101-150	American	46
101-150	Fordham	16
101-150	UC-Irvine	28
101-150	USC	31
101-150	Texas	33
101-150	Univ. of Washington	70
151-200	Arizona State	60
151-200	Emory	57
151-200	Michigan State	81
151-200	Penn State (Univ. Park)	97
151-200	Notre Dame	55
151-200	Wisconsin	99
151-200	Vanderbilt	17
151-200	Washington Univ.	41
201-250	Boston College	84
201-250	George Mason	23
201-250	Indiana (Maurer)	36
201-250	Loyola-Chicago	54
201-250	Arizona	49
201-250	UC-Davis	32
201-250	Florida	50
201-250	Illinois	34
201-250	Minnesota	25
201-250	North Carolina	67
251-300	Florida State	59
251-300	Ohio State	37
251-300	Tulane	207
251-300	Colorado	72
251-300	UIC-John Marshall	172
251-300	Miami	69
301-320	CUNY	171
301-320	Missouri	130
301-320	San Diego	38

2020 World Law School Rankings