2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings

The new 2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 59% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	NYU
2	Georgetown
3	Florida
3	Northwestern
5	Virginia
6	Columbia
6	UCLA
8	Michigan
8	UC-Irvine
10	Chicago
10	Duke
10	Harvard
13	Loyola-L.A.
13	Texas
15	Boston College
15	Boston University
15	Stanford
15	USC
15	Yale
20	North Carolina
20	San Diego
20	UC-Berkeley
23	Indiana (Maurer)
23	Penn
25	Fordham
25	Minnesota
25	UC-Davis
28	Florida State
28	George Washington
28	Pepperdine Caruso
28	Temple
32	Cornell
32	Houston
32	UC-San Francisco
32	Washington Univ.
36	Alabama
36	Georgia
36	University of Washington
36	Villanova
40	Arizona State
40	BYU
40	Cardozo
40	Colorado
40	Miami
40	Pittsburgh
40	SMU
40	Vanderbilt
40	Wisconsin
49	Brooklyn
49	Emory
49	Notre Dame
49	Ohio State
49	UNLV

Among the law schools in the tax rankings last year, here are the biggest upward moves:

• 14: Georgia (#36)
• 12: Houston (#32)
• 10: Colorado (#40), SMU (#40)
• 9: USC (#15) 
• 8: Florida State (#28), Washington University (#32), University of Washington (#36) 
• 7: Yale (#15) 
• 6: UC-Davis (#25), Cardozo (#40) 

Here are the biggest downward moves:

• -16: Denver (#62) 
• -14: UC-San Francisco (#32), Washington & Lee (#54) 
• -12: Loyola-Chicago (#62), Seton Hall (#62), Tulane (#62) 
• -9: BYU (#40), Pittsburgh (#40), Wisconsin (#40), Brooklyn (#49) 
• -5: Indiana-Maurer (#23), Penn (#23), Villanova (#36) 
• -4: George Washington (#28), Arizona State (#40), American (#54), Iowa (#54), Georgia State (#54), Richmond (#54), South Carolina (#54)
• -3: Chicago (#10), Loyola-L.A. (#13), Minnesota (#25), Notre Dame (#49), UNLV (#49)

Here are the rankings of law schools with graduate tax programs:

Rank	School
1	NYU
2	Georgetown
3	Florida
3	Northwestern
5	UC-Irvine
6	Loyola-L.A.
7	Boston Univ.
8	San Diego
9	Temple
10	Houston
10	Washington Univ.
12	Alabama
12	Villanova
12	Washington
15	Miami
15	SMU
17	Emory
18	Denver
18	Loyola-Chicago
20	Baltimore
21	Wayne State
22	Illinois-Chicago
23	Chapman
23	Chicago-Kent
23	New York Law School
23	San Francisco
27	DePaul
27	Suffolk
29	Missouri-Kansas City
30	Capital
30	Golden Gate
32	Western Michigan

Prior Years' U.S. News Tax Rankings:

• 2023-24
• 2022-23
• 2021-22
• 2020-21
• 2019-20
• 2018-19
• 2017-18
• 2016-17
• 2015-16
• 2014-15
• 2013-14
• 2012-13
• 2011-12
• 2010-11
• 2009-10
• 2008-09
• 2007-08
• 2006-07

2024-25 U.S. News Specialty 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 
• Trial Advocacy
• Tax Law