2023 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

The new 2023 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 187 law schools (the faculty survey had a 56% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	Score	School
1	4.7	UC-Berkeley
2	4.6	Stanford
3	4.3	NYU
4	4.1	Santa Clara
5	4.0	George Washington
6	3.9	Houston
6	3.9	Texas A&M
8	3.7	American
8	3.7	Cardozo
8	3.7	New Hampshire
11	3.6	Boston Univ.
12	3.5	Chicago-Kent
12	3.5	Duke
12	3.5	Penn
15	3.4	Columbia
15	3.4	Harvard
15	3.4	UCLA
18	3.3	Georgetown
19	3.2	George Mason
19	3.2	Michigan
19	3.2	Northwestern
19	3.2	San Diego
19	3.2	Texas
19	3.2	UC-Irvine
25	3.1	DePaul
25	3.1	Fordham
25	3.1	Virginia
28	3.0	Indiana (Maurer)
28	3.0	Suffolk
28	3.0	UC-Hastings
28	3.0	Univ. of Washington
32	2.9	Akron
32	2.9	Boston College
32	2.9	John Marshall (IL)
32	2.9	Loyola-L.A.
36	2.8	Case Western
36	2.8	Chicago
36	2.8	Loyola-Chicago
36	2.8	Notre Dame
36	2.8	Ohio State
36	2.8	Richmond
36	2.8	Temple
36	2.8	UC-Davis
36	2.8	Utah
45	2.7	Colorado
45	2.7	Cornell
45	2.7	Emory
45	2.7	Howard
45	2.7	Northeastern
45	2.7	Pittsburgh
45	2.7	USC
45	2.7	Vanderbilt
45	2.7	Washington Univ.
45	2.7	William & Mary

2022 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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