Projected 2024-25 U.S. News Rankings Of All 196 Law Schools

With the ABA's release of the 509 data on Friday, 75% of the components of the current  2023-24 U.S. News law school rankings methodology are now publicly available. (The remaining 25% is the U.S. News proprietary assessment scores (12.5% peer assessment and 12.5% lawyer/judge assessment). Mike Spivey has crunched the numbers and released projected 2024-25 rankings of all 196 law schools. Here are the projected Top 25:

Law School	2024-25 Calculated Ranking	2023-24 Ranking
Stanford	1	1
Yale	2	1
Chicago	3	3
Virginia	4	8
Harvard	4	5
Penn	4	4
Duke	7	5
Michigan	8	10
Columbia	8	8
Northwestern	10	10
UC-Berkeley	10	10
NYU	10	5
UCLA	13	14
Washington University	14	20
Georgetown	14	15
Texas	16	16
Cornell	16	13
North Carolina	18	22
Minnesota	18	18
Notre Dame	20	27
Vanderbilt	20	16
Boston University	22	27
Georgia	22	20
USC	22	16
Wisconsin	25	40
Utah	25	32
Wake Forest	25	22

[P]please know that these predictions won’t be 100% accurate. For one, there are a few errors in the ABA data that we expect to be corrected by the time the rankings come out (in those instances, we've used last year's data for the schools in question). U.S. News will also almost certainly make some methodology changes (one such possibility would be introducing a faculty citation metric, as they did with the undergraduate rankings), and again, the below calculated rankings are based on the current methodology.

As you'll see below, our predictions show a lot of big changes. That is a consequence of the new methodology. With so much more weight now assigned to the more volatile Outcome metrics (58% compared to 21% two years ago), expect to see big swings going forward.