2022 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

The new 2022 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 187 law schools (the faculty survey had a 65% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	Score	School
1	4.6	Stanford
1	4.6	UC-Berkeley
3	4.3	NYU
4	4.0	George Washington
4	4.0	New Hampshire
4	4.0	Santa Clara
7	3.9	Texas A&M
8	3.8	American
8	3.8	Houston
10	3.7	Cardozo
10	3.7	Chicago-Kent
12	3.6	Boston Univ.
13	3.5	Georgetown
13	3.5	Penn
15	3.4	Columbia
15	3.4	Duke
15	3.4	Michigan
15	3.4	Univ. of Washington
19	3.3	Fordham
19	3.3	Harvard
19	3.3	Northwestern
19	3.3	San Diego
19	3.3	UC-Irvine
19	3.3	UCLA
19	3.3	Virginia
26	3.2	George Mason
26	3.2	Indiana (Maurer)
26	3.2	Texas
26	3.2	Vanderbilt
30	3.1	DePaul
30	3.1	Loyola-L.A.
30	3.1	UC-Hastings
33	3.0	Boston College
33	3.0	Colorado
33	3.0	UIC-John Marshall
33	3.0	Notre Dame
33	3.0	Utah
38	2.9	Chicago
38	2.9	Cornell
38	2.9	Emory
38	2.9	Illinois
38	2.9	Minnesota
38	2.9	Northeastern
44	2.8	BYU
44	2.8	Loyola-Chicago
44	2.8	Ohio State
44	2.8	Pittsburgh
44	2.8	Richmond
44	2.8	SMU
44	2.8	UC-Davis
44	2.8	Washington Univ.

2021 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

2022 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