2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

Following up on yesterday's post, 2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings:

Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking:

	School	Specialty Rank	Overall Rank	Difference
1	American	24	104	+80
2	Santa Clara	85	156	+71
3	Pacific	94	163	+69
4	Illinois-Chicago	104	169	+65
5	Howard	63	127	+64
6	Brooklyn	56	117	+61
6	Case Western	46	107	+61
8	Suffolk	70	127	+57
9	Rutgers	51	104	+53
10	Denver	37	88	+51
11	CUNY	107	156	+49
12	Miami	44	92	+48
12	Pace	93	141	+48
12	UC Law - SF*	40	88	+48
15	Baltimore	92	139	+47
16	San Francisco*	120	166	+46
16	Seattle	81	127	+46
18	DePaul	95	133	+38
18	Hofstra	87	125	+38
20	Mitchell | Hamline	117	154	+37
21	Widener (DE)	134	169	+35
22	Maryland	30	63	+33
23	Loyola-New Orleans	102	134	+32
23	Michigan State	83	115	+32
23	Nova	147	179	+32
23	Widener (PA)	143	175	+32
27	Cal-Western*	150	179	+29
28	Vermont	135	163	+28
29	Houston	36	63	+27
29	Loyola-Chicago	52	79	+27
31	Temple	24	50	+26
31	UNLV	53	79	+26
33	UC-Irvine*	14	38	+24
34	Arizona State	22	45	+23
34	Chicago-Kent	84	107	+23
34	Fordham	15	38	+23
34	Oregon	71	94	+23
38	Lewis & Clark	77	99	+22
38	Quinnipiac*	119	141	+22
38	Tulane*	49	71	+22
38	Willamette	128	150	+22
42	George Washington	11	31	+20
42	Louisville	126	146	+20
42	Syracuse	87	107	+20
45	UC-Davis	31	50	+19
46	Georgia State	61	79	+18
46	Southern*	157	175	+18
48	Gonzaga*	124	141	+17
48	Southern Illinois	158	175	+17
48	St. Mary's	131	148	+17
48	Stetson	82	99	+17

Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most trails their overall U.S. News Ranking:

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2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings include the rankings for 13 specialty programs at 195 law schools. Here are the Top 100 law schools, determined by giving equal weight to each of the 13 separate specialty rankings:

1. Business/Corporate Law
2. Clinical Law
3. Constitutional Law
4. Contracts/Commercial Law
5. Criminal Law
6. Dispute Resolution
7. Environmental Law
8. Health Care Law
9. Intellectual Property Law
10. International Law
11. Legal Writing 
12. Tax Law
13. Trial Advocacy

	School	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	Avg.
1	Georgetown*	12	1	11	11	9	18	14	8	9	3	11	3	21	10.1
2	Harvard*	1	24	2	1	3	3	7	6	12	2	108	12	34	16.5
3	NYU*	2	2	5	6	1	35	7	34	3	1	70	1	56	17.2
4	Michigan*	11	4	9	6	3	27	18	20	12	8	27	6	73	17.2
5	Stanford*	5	14	4	1	1	14	12	7	1	10	96	18	64	19.0
6	UC-Berkeley*	7	4	5	6	7	48	2	53	2	6	70	31	16	19.8
7	Northwestern*	12	12	14	13	15	7	44	46	23	22	34	3	19	20.3
8	UCLA*	8	24	16	11	8	29	6	17	12	17	103	10	5	20.5
9	Duke*	12	31	12	17	9	72	14	26	12	13	27	10	83	26.0
10	Columbia*	2	19	5	4	9	23	5	46	12	3	103	8	112	27.0
11	George Washington	31	24	31	44	32	48	18	17	5	8	34	23	43	27.5
12	Texas	18	31	14	13	16	35	38	34	12	26	96	12	29	28.8
13	Penn*	5	31	9	6	3	48	25	20	9	18	110	22	73	29.2
14	UC-Irvine*	41	14	26	26	21	27	30	59	35	29	8	8	56	29.2
15	Fordham	18	14	26	23	16	12	76	59	20	19	70	23	5	29.3
16	Virginia*	8	53	5	6	3	59	25	30	20	11	110	5	73	31.4
17	Yale*	8	8	1	4	9	86	21	12	45	3	107	15	96	31.9
18	Ohio State	35	53	31	30	16	1	44	17	73	41	17	35	43	33.5
19	Vanderbilt	15	31	17	13	9	35	12	40	26	19	89	50	83	33.8
20	Boston University	28	31	23	26	21	72	64	2	12	29	34	15	96	34.8
21	Washington Univ.	20	19	18	18	21	29	64	40	31	19	110	35	34	35.2
22	Arizona State	41	60	31	44	32	9	16	13	53	37	3	35	96	36.2
23	Minnesota	20	19	19	19	21	72	30	29	24	26	70	26	96	36.2
24	American	55	2	55	56	29	35	56	20	6	6	89	41	24	36.5
24	Temple	55	53	55	44	51	35	62	13	35	13	27	29	2	36.5
26	Cornell*	16	31	12	13	21	48	46	46	26	11	70	31	112	37.2
27	Chicago	2	43	2	1	9	86	64	59	24	13	102	6	73	37.2
28	Emory	23	84	26	23	34	35	38	24	35	29	70	41	24	37.4
29	North Carolina	23	53	23	19	21	48	50	30	31	55	10	18	112	37.9
30	Maryland	51	8	41	66	29	9	21	4	53	45	93	53	24	38.2
31	UC-Davis	31	76	19	35	16	23	16	59	31	22	89	26	64	39.0
32	Florida	23	112	35	19	40	14	30	53	45	55	61	2	48	41.3
33	Boston College	35	43	35	35	40	48	50	34	31	29	51	12	96	41.5
34	Texas A&M	51	60	41	44	75	3	25	44	6	45	27	67	56	41.8
35	William & Mary	41	90	19	26	21	35	56	59	35	29	27	53	56	42.1
36	Houston	62	84	65	53	57	23	36	9	12	71	15	41	29	42.8
37	Denver	78	8	65	72	40	35	21	80	45	41	17	53	8	43.3
38	Indiana (Maurer)	31	84	41	35	40	48	38	34	35	22	61	26	96	45.5
39	Georgia	28	60	37	26	51	72	50	40	58	22	110	41	34	48.4
40	UC Law - SF*	62	43	55	72	51	14	21	16	58	71	110	29	48	50.0
41	Wisconsin	35	43	23	35	34	72	38	69	73	37	34	41	126	50.8
42	Univ. of Washington*	55	43	55	35	34	102	38	34	35	37	44	41	112	51.2
43	USC	16	71	26	23	29	48	64	69	45	55	110	15	96	51.3
44	Miami	41	24	62	56	68	29	38	76	63	29	93	31	73	52.5
45	Wake Forest	41	112	41	44	34	48	56	24	63	82	7	67	73	53.2
46	Case Western	55	60	65	56	75	67	30	13	73	13	51	90	48	53.5
46	University of Arizona	51	60	37	44	57	59	30	46	85	45	8	62	112	53.5
48	Notre Dame	26	60	19	30	57	102	50	80	73	26	79	41	64	54.4
49	Tulane*	31	31	55	35	40	72	25	91	73	29	110	62	64	55.2
50	Cardozo	51	31	47	35	21	5	134	80	6	67	110	41	96	55.7
51	Rutgers	71	12	55	56	40	102	64	59	81	45	11	76	56	56.0
52	Loyola-Chicago	78	60	70	83	82	29	86	4	45	45	61	67	21	56.2
53	UNLV	55	24	86	66	68	9	64	46	35	131	1	53	96	56.5
54	Colorado	41	76	47	44	57	72	7	76	45	55	84	53	83	56.9
55	Northeastern	96	19	65	83	51	59	102	9	26	45	27	118	64	58.8
56	Brooklyn	35	24	47	53	20	67	112	91	81	67	61	50	64	59.4
57	Illinois	41	101	47	30	40	35	86	69	53	55	110	62	48	59.8
58	Iowa	26	90	37	19	57	59	50	76	53	55	110	53	96	60.1
59	Florida State	41	121	37	30	34	119	18	53	58	55	110	35	96	62.1
60	Pepperdine	88	43	47	56	82	2	112	109	85	55	84	23	34	63.1
61	Georgia State	55	43	41	77	40	86	102	3	73	82	110	62	48	63.2
62	Villanova	71	43	70	66	57	102	76	69	45	77	70	35	43	63.4
63	Howard	96	31	62	56	51	35	102	91	63	82	70	82	29	65.4
64	Utah	55	60	55	56	34	150	7	30	26	67	110	67	137	65.7
65	San Diego	62	125	31	56	40	150	50	59	20	55	110	18	83	66.1
66	Washington & Lee	35	76	47	35	57	86	64	80	63	41	110	62	112	66.8
67	SMU	41	53	70	66	40	150	64	46	63	71	110	53	48	67.3
68	Alabama	35	84	26	35	57	110	76	59	115	98	89	31	73	68.3
69	South Carolina	73	31	86	66	57	102	64	99	104	98	61	50	12	69.5
70	Suffolk	88	8	122	118	90	18	76	46	45	116	3	145	29	69.5
71	Oregon	62	125	70	56	75	12	7	128	99	77	1	67	137	70.5
72	Kansas	62	112	70	44	102	29	25	109	89	77	17	82	112	71.5
73	BYU	20	135	47	53	68	67	86	143	58	45	110	41	73	72.8
74	Loyola-L.A.	78	90	86	90	75	102	118	59	73	125	34	18	7	73.5
75	Tennessee	28	14	70	44	75	72	102	53	115	116	61	82	126	73.7
76	Seton Hall	78	71	79	77	82	95	97	9	63	77	110	76	48	74.0
77	Lewis & Clark	78	71	70	98	90	95	2	109	73	98	17	111	64	75.1
78	St. John's	78	101	79	77	57	72	124	109	63	77	17	118	21	76.4
79	Richmond	62	135	47	77	40	72	56	91	35	82	110	53	137	76.7
80	Pittsburgh*	78	101	65	83	51	110	86	34	58	45	110	35	151	77.5
81	Seattle	88	31	86	90	114	59	64	91	63	98	6	104	126	78.5
82	Stetson	96	112	98	90	90	18	76	109	149	116	3	76	1	79.5
83	Michigan State	62	53	98	72	82	59	86	109	63	71	110	95	83	80.2
84	Chicago-Kent	73	125	79	72	114	86	124	80	9	137	44	95	12	80.8
85	Santa Clara	62	90	86	83	68	86	97	86	4	37	110	82	165	81.2
86	Drexel	88	71	86	106	102	102	124	20	89	125	44	104	8	82.2
87	Hofstra	88	90	107	98	75	72	118	69	89	82	79	95	8	82.3
87	Syracuse	88	125	86	83	68	72	86	59	99	82	110	104	8	82.3
89	Wayne State	78	60	70	72	68	128	102	53	89	55	110	53	151	83.8
90	Connecticut	62	76	62	66	90	95	97	76	115	45	100	67	151	84.8
91	George Mason	41	169	41	30	90	119	102	122	26	82	110	90	96	86.0
92	Baltimore	127	4	107	139	57	95	76	122	89	98	51	82	96	87.9
93	Pace	113	121	153	130	118	18	1	86	132	67	110	82	19	88.5
94	Pacific	96	125	122	106	126	18	86	157	132	29	44	104	16	89.3
95	DePaul	88	90	98	90	118	110	124	26	35	116	110	104	56	89.6
96	Baylor	78	135	107	90	90	29	134	91	89	148	79	95	3	89.8
97	Missouri-Columbia	78	165	86	56	90	5	112	109	63	109	110	67	126	90.5
98	Oklahoma	73	135	86	77	82	95	86	40	104	98	110	90	112	91.4
99	Indiana (McKinney)	96	121	79	83	102	150	102	30	104	71	17	76	165	92.0
100	Marquette	108	121	107	90	82	48	86	109	81	116	17	111	137	93.3

*Denotes schools that did not submit statistical information to U.S.News. From the U.S News methodology:  "schools that declined to provide statistical information to U.S. News had their academic peer ratings programmatically discarded before any computations were made. Nonresponders were still scored using the full complement of eligible ratings submitted by peer schools, but any ratings they made of other schools were omitted." For the complete list of boycotting schools for the past three years, see Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings.

If anyone at a law school outside the Top 100 would like the data for their school's rank, email me.

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Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings

2023-2024 (Rank)	2024-2025 (Rank)	2025-2026 (Rank)
Stanford (1)	Stanford (1)	Stanford (1)
Yale (1)	Yale (1)	Yale (1)
Virginia (8)	Virginia (4)	Virginia (4)
Penn (4)	Penn (4)	Penn (5)
Duke (5)	Duke (4)	Duke (6)
Harvard (5)	Harvard (4)	Harvard (6)
Michigan (10)	Michigan (9)	Michigan (8)
NYU (5)	NYU (9)	NYU (8)
Columbia (8)	Columbia (8)	Columbia (10)
Northwestern (10)	Northwestern (9)	Northwestern (10)
UCLA (14)	UCLA (13)	UCLA (12)
UC-Berkeley (10)	UC-Berkeley (12)	UC-Berkeley (13)
Georgetown (15)	Georgetown (14)	Georgetown (14)
Vanderbilt (16)	(19)	(14)
Cornell (13)	Cornell (14)	Cornell (18)
Wisconsin (40)	(36)	(28)
UC-Irvine (35)	UC-Irvine (42)	UC-Irvine (38)
Connecticut (71)	(55)	(50)
UC-Davis (60)	UC-Davis (55)	(50)
Univ. of Washington (49)	Univ. of Washington (48)	Univ. of Washington (50)
Penn State-Dickinson (89)	Penn State-Dickinson (75)	Penn State-Dickinson (59)
(69)	Cardozo (61)	(63)
Maryland (51)	(55)	(63)
St. John's (60)	St. John's (68)	(63)
Northeastern (71)	(68)	(68)
Penn State-Univ. Park (80)	Penn State-Univ. Park (68)	Penn State-Univ. Park (68)
Nebraska (89)	(82)	(71)
Tulane (71)	Tulane (78)	Tulane (71)
Loyola-Chicago (84)	(78)	(79)
Pittsburgh (89)	Pittsburgh (91)	Pittsburgh (79)
UC Law - SF (60)	UC Law - SF (82)	UC Law - SF (88)
American (89)	American (98)	(104)
Rutgers (109)	Rutgers (103)	(104)
Syracuse (122)	Syracuse (120)	(107)
Brooklyn (111)	Brooklyn (114)	(117)
New Hampshire (105)	New Hampshire (98)	New Hampshire (125)
Seattle (111)	Seattle (114)	(127)
Campbell (125)	Campbell (134)	Campbell (134)
Detroit Mercy (141)	(136)	(134)
Loyola-New Orleans (111)	Loyola-New Orleans (130)	(134)
South Texas (162)	(150)	(138)
Gonzaga (99)	Gonzaga (120)	Gonzaga (141)
Idaho (141)	Idaho (145)	Idaho (141)
Quinnipiac (146)	Quinnipiac (143)	Quinnipiac (141)
Creighton (155)	Creighton (153)	(148)
Mitchell | Hamline (167)	Mitchell | Hamline (164)	(154)
Southwestern (141)	Southwestern (145)	Southwestern (154)
San Francisco (165)	San Francisco (165)	San Francisco (166)
Roger Williams (171)	Roger Williams (172)	Roger Williams (169)
Touro (167)	(168)	(169)
Capital (175)	Capital (Tier 2)	Capital (174)
Puerto Rico (Tier 2)	Puerto Rico (Tier 2)	Puerto Rico (175)
(Tier 2)	Golden Gate (Tier 2)	(N/A)
Western Michigan (Tier 2)	Western Michigan (Tier 2)	(N/A)
Appalachian (Tier 2)	Appalachian (Tier 2)	Appalachian (Tier 2)
Barry (Tier 2)	Barry (Tier 2)	Barry (Tier 2)
Cal-Western (175)	Cal-Western (Tier 2)	Cal-Western (Tier 2)
Florida A&M (Tier 2)	Florida A&M (Tier 2)	Florida A&M (Tier 2)
Inter-American (Tier 2)	Inter-American (Tier 2)	Inter-American (Tier 2)
John Marshall (GA) (171)	John Marshall (GA) (176)	John Marshall (GA) (Tier 2)
North Carolina Central (175)	(Tier 2)	North Carolina Central (Tier 2)
Pontifical Catholic (Tier 2)	Pontifical Catholic (Tier 2)	Pontifical Catholic (Tier 2)
Southern (Tier 2)	Southern (Tier 2)	Southern (Tier 2)
Texas Southern (Tier 2)	Texas Southern (Tier 2)	Texas Southern (Tier 2)

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Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings For U.S. Law Schools

Matthew Sag (Emory; Google Scholar), Forward Looking Academic Impact Rankings for U.S. Law Schools, 51 Fla. St. U. L. Rev. 763 (2024):

Although the very concept of law school rankings is currently under fire, rankings abolitionism is misplaced. Given the number, diversity, and geographic dispersion of the more than 190 law schools fully accredited by the American Bar Association, rankings are essential to enable various stakeholders to make comparisons between schools. However, the current rankings landscape is dire. The U.S News law school rankings rely on poorly designed, highly subjective surveys to gauge “reputational strength,” rather than looking to easily available, objective citation data that is more valid and reliable. Would-be usurpers of U.S. News use better data but make other arbitrary choices that limit and distort their rankings. One flaw common to U.S. News and those who would displace it is the fetishization of minor differences in placement that do not reflect actual differences in substance. This information is worse than trivial: it is actively misleading. This Article proposes a new set of law school rankings free from all of these defects.

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2025-26 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings include the trial advocacy programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Stetson
2	Temple
3	Baylor
4	Samford
5	Fordham
5	UCLA
7	Loyola-L.A.
8	Denver
8	Drexel
8	Hofstra
8	Syracuse
12	Chicago-Kent
12	Mercer
12	South Carolina
12	South Texas
16	Pacific
16	St. Mary's
16	UC-Berkeley
19	Northwestern
19	Pace
21	Georgetown
21	Loyola-Chicago
21	St. John's
24	American
24	Emory
24	Maryland
24	Nova
24	Ohio Northern
29	Houston
29	Howard
29	Inter-American (PR)
29	Suffolk
29	Texas
34	Georgia
34	Harvard
34	Illinois-Chicago
34	Pepperdine
34	Quinnipiac
34	Texas Tech
34	Washington Univ.
41	Campbell
41	Missouri-Kansas City
43	George Washington
43	Louisiana State
43	Ohio State
43	SUNY-Buffalo
43	Villanova
48	Akron
48	Case Western
48	Florida
48	Georgia State
48	Illinois
48	Seton Hall
48	SMU
48	UC Law - SF

2024-25 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings include the legal writing programs at 109 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Oregon
1	UNLV
3	Arizona State
3	Stetson
3	Suffolk
6	Seattle
7	Wake Forest
8	UC-Irvine
8	University of Arizona
10	North Carolina
11	Georgetown
11	Nova
11	Rutgers
11	Washburn
15	Houston
15	Mercer
17	Denver
17	Drake
17	Indiana (McKinney)
17	Kansas
17	Lewis & Clark
17	Marquette
17	North Dakota
17	Ohio State
17	St. John's
17	Wyoming
27	Duke
27	Illinois-Chicago
27	Michigan
27	Northeastern
27	Temple
27	Texas A&M
27	William & Mary
34	Arkansas-Little Rock
34	Boston University
34	George Washington
34	Louisville
34	Loyola-L.A.
34	Missouri-Kansas City
34	New York Law School
34	Northwestern
34	St. Thomas (MN)
34	Wisconsin
44	Chicago-Kent
44	Drexel
44	Duquesne
44	Pacific
44	Texas Tech
44	University of Washington
44	Willamette

2024-25 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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Are Faith-Based Law Schools Fairly Ranked By U.S. News?

Anton Sorkin (Director of Law Student Ministries, Christian Legal Society):

Interesting observation from David Lat: “schools with a strong ideological brand, including religiously affiliated law schools  . . .  tend to fare well in rankings[.]”

Imagine how well they'd fare if there wasn't a peer ranking penalty, tabulated by Michael Conklin at 17.65 in his upcoming paper [Religious Law Schools, Rankings, and Bias: Measuring the Rankings Penalty at Religious Law Schools].

Latest rankings has the peer reputation average for the most devout law schools: ...

The RED [above] is all the schools that fare worse among their peers vs. their overall rank. The GREEN are the same schools as last year with positive peer scores. 

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2025-26 U.S. News International Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News International Law Rankings include the international law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	NYU
2	Harvard
3	Columbia
3	Georgetown
3	Yale
6	American
6	UC-Berkeley
8	George Washington
8	Michigan
10	Stanford
11	Cornell
11	Virginia
13	Case Western
13	Duke
13	Temple
13	Chicago
17	UCLA
18	Penn
19	Fordham
19	Vanderbilt
19	Washington Univ.
22	Indiana (Maurer)
22	Northwestern
22	UC-Davis
22	Georgia
26	Minnesota
26	Notre Dame
26	Texas
29	Boston College
29	Boston University
29	Emory
29	Tulane
29	UC-Irvine
29	Miami
29	Pacific
29	William & Mary
37	Arizona State
37	Santa Clara
37	University of Washington
37	Wisconsin
41	Florida Int'l
41	Ohio State
41	Denver
41	Washington & Lee
45	BYU
45	Loyola-Chicago
45	Northeastern
45	Rutgers
45	Texas A&M
45	University of Arizona
45	Connecticut
45	Hawaii
45	Maryland
45	Pittsburgh

2024-25 U.S. News International Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 56% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Stanford
2	UC-Berkeley
3	NYU
4	Santa Clara
5	George Washington
6	American
6	Cardozo
6	Texas A&M
9	Chicago-Kent
9	Georgetown
9	Penn
12	Boston University
12	Columbia
12	Duke
12	Harvard
12	Houston
12	Michigan
12	Texas
12	UCLA
20	Fordham
20	San Diego
20	Virginia
23	Northwestern
24	Chicago
24	Minnesota
26	Cornell
26	George Mason
26	Northeastern
26	Utah
26	Vanderbilt
31	Boston College
31	North Carolina
31	UC-Davis
31	Washington Univ.
35	DePaul
35	Emory
35	Indiana (Maurer)
35	New Hampshire
35	Richmond
35	Temple
35	UC-Irvine
35	University of Washington
35	UNLV
35	William & Mary
45	Colorado
45	Denver
45	Florida
45	Loyola-Chicago
45	Suffolk
45	USC
45	Villanova
45	Yale

2024-25 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings include the health care law programs at 191 law schools (the faculty survey had a 45% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	St. Louis
2	Boston University
3	Georgia State
4	Loyola-Chicago
4	Maryland
6	Harvard
7	Stanford
8	Georgetown
9	Houston
9	Northeastern
9	Seton Hall
12	Yale
13	Arizona State
13	Case Western
13	Temple
16	UC Law - SF
17	George Washington
17	Ohio State
17	UCLA
20	American
20	Drexel
20	Michigan
20	Penn
24	Emory
24	Wake Forest
26	DePaul
26	Duke
26	Mitchell | Hamline
29	Minnesota
30	Indiana (McKinney)
30	North Carolina
30	Utah
30	Virginia
34	Boston College
34	Indiana (Maurer)
34	NYU
34	Pittsburgh
34	Texas
34	University of Washington
40	Georgia
40	Oklahoma
40	Vanderbilt
40	Washington Univ.
44	Quinnipiac
44	Texas A&M
46	Columbia
46	Cornell
46	Northwestern
46	SMU
46	Suffolk
46	University of Arizona
46	UNLV

2024-25 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Pace
2	Lewis & Clark
2	UC-Berkeley
4	Vermont
5	Columbia
6	UCLA
7	Colorado
7	Harvard
7	NYU
7	Oregon
7	Utah
12	Stanford
12	Vanderbilt
14	Duke
14	Georgetown
16	Arizona State
16	UC-Davis
18	Florida State
18	George Washington
18	Michigan
21	Denver
21	Maryland
21	UC Law - SF
21	Yale
25	Kansas
25	Penn
25	Texas A&M
25	Tulane
25	Virginia
30	Case Western
30	Florida
30	Minnesota
30	New Mexico
30	UC-Irvine
30	University of Arizona
36	Hawaii
36	Houston
38	Emory
38	Indiana (Maurer)
38	Miami
38	Texas
38	University of Washington
38	Wisconsin
44	Northwestern
44	Ohio State
46	Cornell
46	Maine
46	Montana
46	Wyoming
50	Boston College
50	Georgia
50	Iowa
50	North Carolina
50	Notre Dame
50	San Diego

2024-25 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 149 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Ohio State
2	Pepperdine
3	Harvard
3	Texas A&M
5	Cardozo
5	Missouri-Columbia
7	Northwestern
8	Mitchell | Hamline
9	Arizona State
9	Maryland
9	UNLV
12	Fordham
12	Oregon
14	Florida
14	Quinnipiac
14	Stanford
14	UC Law - SF
18	Georgetown
18	Pace
18	Pacific
18	Stetson
18	Suffolk
23	Columbia
23	Houston
23	South Texas
23	UC-Davis
27	Michigan
27	UC-Irvine
29	Baylor
29	Kansas
29	Loyola-Chicago
29	Miami
29	UCLA
29	Washington Univ.
35	American
35	Creighton
35	Denver
35	Emory
35	Howard
35	Illinois
35	Nebraska
35	NYU
35	St. Mary's
35	Temple
35	Texas
35	Vanderbilt
35	William & Mary
48	Arkansas-Little Rock
48	Boston College
48	Cornell
48	George Washington
48	Indiana (Maurer)
48	Marquette
48	North Carolina
48	Penn
48	UC-Berkeley
48	USC
48	Wake Forest

2024-25 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings

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2025-26 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	NYU
1	Stanford
3	Harvard
3	Michigan
3	Penn
3	Virginia
7	UC-Berkeley
8	UCLA
9	Chicago
9	Columbia
9	Duke
9	Georgetown
9	Vanderbilt
9	Yale
15	Northwestern
16	Fordham
16	Ohio State
16	Texas
16	UC-Davis
20	Brooklyn
21	Boston University
21	Cardozo
21	Cornell
21	Minnesota
21	North Carolina
21	UC-Irvine
21	Washington Univ.
21	William & Mary
29	American
29	Maryland
29	USC
32	Arizona State
32	George Washington
34	Emory
34	Florida State
34	University of Washington
34	Utah
34	Wake Forest
34	Wisconsin
40	Boston College
40	Denver
40	Florida
40	Georgia State
40	Illinois
40	Indiana (Maurer)
40	Richmond
40	Rutgers
40	San Diego
40	SMU
40	Tulane

2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 36% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Chicago
1	Harvard
1	Stanford
4	Columbia
4	Yale
6	Michigan
6	NYU
6	Penn
6	UC-Berkeley
6	Virginia
11	Georgetown
11	UCLA
13	Cornell
13	Northwestern
13	Texas
13	Vanderbilt
17	Duke
18	Washington Univ.
19	Florida
19	Iowa
19	Minnesota
19	North Carolina
23	Emory
23	Fordham
23	USC
26	Boston University
26	Georgia
26	UC-Irvine
26	William & Mary
30	Florida State
30	George Mason
30	Illinois
30	Notre Dame
30	Ohio State
35	Alabama
35	Boston College
35	Cardozo
35	Indiana (Maurer)
35	Tulane
35	UC-Davis
35	University of Washington
35	Washington & Lee
35	Wisconsin
44	Arizona State
44	Colorado
44	George Washington
44	Kansas
44	Temple
44	Tennessee
44	Texas A&M
44	University of Arizona
44	Wake Forest

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2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings include the constitutional law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 39% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Yale
2	Chicago
2	Harvard
4	Stanford
5	Columbia
5	NYU
5	UC-Berkeley
5	Virginia
9	Michigan
9	Penn
11	Georgetown
12	Cornell
12	Duke
14	Northwestern
14	Texas
16	UCLA
17	Vanderbilt
18	Washington Univ.
19	Minnesota
19	Notre Dame
19	UC-Davis
19	William & Mary
23	Boston University
23	North Carolina
23	Wisconsin
26	Alabama
26	Emory
26	Fordham
26	UC-Irvine
26	USC
31	Arizona State
31	George Washington
31	Ohio State
31	San Diego
35	Boston College
35	Florida
37	Florida State
37	Georgia
37	Iowa
37	University of Arizona
41	George Mason
41	Georgia State
41	Indiana (Maurer)
41	Maryland
41	Texas A&M
41	Wake Forest
47	Brooklyn
47	BYU
47	Cardozo
47	Colorado
47	Illinois
47	Pepperdine
47	Richmond
47	Washington & Lee

2024-25 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings include the clinical training law programs at 185 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Georgetown
2	American
2	NYU
4	Baltimore
4	CUNY
4	Michigan
4	UC-Berkeley
8	Denver
8	Maryland
8	Suffolk
8	Yale
12	Northwestern
12	Rutgers
14	Fordham
14	New Mexico
14	Stanford
14	Tennessee
14	UC-Irvine
19	Columbia
19	District of Columbia
19	Minnesota
19	Northeastern
19	Washington Univ.
24	Brooklyn
24	George Washington
24	Harvard
24	Miami
24	Mitchell | Hamline
24	UCLA
24	UNLV
31	Boston University
31	Cardozo
31	Cornell
31	Duke
31	Howard
31	Loyola-New Orleans
31	Penn
31	Seattle
31	South Carolina
31	Texas
31	Tulane
31	Vanderbilt
43	Albany
43	Boston College
43	Chicago
43	Georgia State
43	Pepperdine
43	St. Thomas (MN)
43	UC Law - SF
43	University of Washington
43	Villanova
43	Wisconsin

2024-25 U.S. News Clinical Law Rankings 

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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More Commentary On The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Following up on Tuesday's post, 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings):  Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Benchmarking Law School Rankings Against Expectations, Performance, and Rankings Tactics:

Whenever the USNWR law school rankings are released, there are typical cries of “how did X school move to Y?” This usually reflects a kind of mental benchmark—schools X ought to be at not-Y but ended up at Y. That could be because there is an expectation that the school should be higher or lower than it is.

We all have expectations, then about where school “should” be. Of course, what USNWR uses for its own methodology does not necessarily reflect one’s expectations.

But schools do change over the years, and there are ways of helping reset some expectations against actual schools’ performance. Likewise, there are rankings-related tactics that some schools use that are largely—or only—explicable in terms of USNWR rankings metric performance, which can also help explains rankings outcomes.

Let’s start with two ways to look at schools’ performance: employment outcomes and peer reputation. Then we’ll look at a third: which schools’ tactics may be helping drive rankings changes.

David Lat (Original Jurisdiction), The 2025 U.S. News Rankings: All Hail The... T17?:

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2025-26 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings include the business/corporate law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 42% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	Harvard
2	Chicago
2	Columbia
2	NYU
5	Penn
5	Stanford
7	UC-Berkeley
8	UCLA
8	Virginia
8	Yale
11	Michigan
12	Duke
12	Georgetown
12	Northwestern
15	Vanderbilt
16	Cornell
16	USC
18	Fordham
18	Texas
20	BYU
20	Minnesota
20	Washington Univ.
23	Emory
23	Florida
23	North Carolina
26	Iowa
26	Notre Dame
28	Boston University
28	Georgia
28	Tennessee
31	George Washington
31	Indiana (Maurer)
31	Tulane
31	UC-Davis
35	Alabama
35	Boston College
35	Brooklyn
35	Ohio State
35	Washington & Lee
35	Wisconsin
41	Arizona State
41	Colorado
41	Florida State
41	George Mason
41	Illinois
41	Miami
41	SMU
41	UC-Irvine
41	Wake Forest
41	William & Mary

2024-25 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings 

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:

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Tobin: Building A Better Law School Rankings Mousetrap

Following up on Monday's post, XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase):  Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar), Building a Better Mousetrap: There Must Be Something Better Than U.S. News:

There must be a better way. U.S. News has dominated law school rankings for several decades, and its decisions about what to rank and how to weigh those factors have had a significant impact on legal education, and, in my view, not in a good way. Especially now, as U.S. News is ranking based on its survey and then on publicly available data, U.S. News has no expertise in this area and is doing no more than aggregating data and presenting it in a way that makes the results seem objective. The U.S. News rankings measure what they measure, but I am not sure why a publication, with no expertise in law or law schools, should be whom we look to for guidance about what makes a “best law school.” 

At some point, those, like me, who constantly harp on the rankings and why they are bad for legal education and law students need to propose something better. I am pleased that the University of Maryland Institute for Clinical and Translational research has provided me with a small grant and statistical advice to see if there is a better way to evaluate law schools. At the very least, we should start our evaluation with a basic question, what makes a top law school? What factors do experts and users believe make a top law school, and how do we capture the data necessary to measure those factors?

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2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings

The new 2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:

Rank	School
1	NYU
2	Florida
3	Georgetown
3	Northwestern
5	Virginia
6	Chicago
6	Michigan
8	Columbia
8	UC-Irvine
10	Duke
10	UCLA
12	Boston College
12	Harvard
12	Texas
15	Boston University
15	USC
15	Yale
18	Loyola-L.A.
18	North Carolina
18	San Diego
18	Stanford
22	Penn
23	Fordham
23	George Washington
23	Pepperdine
26	Indiana (Maurer)
26	Minnesota
26	UC-Davis
29	Temple
29	UC Law - SF
31	Alabama
31	Cornell
31	Miami
31	UC-Berkeley
35	Arizona State
35	Florida State
35	Ohio State
35	Pittsburgh
35	Villanova
35	Washington Univ.
41	American
41	BYU
41	Cardozo
41	Emory
41	Georgia
41	Houston
41	Notre Dame
41	University of Washington
41	Wisconsin
50	Brooklyn
50	South Carolina
50	Vanderbilt

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

• 14: Ohio State (#35)
• 13: American (#41)
• 9: Miami (#31)
• 8: Emory (#41), Notre Dame (#41)
• 5: George Washington (#23), Pepperdine (#23), Alabama (#31), Arizona State (#35), Pittsburgh (#35)

Here are the biggest downward moves:

• -11: UC-Berkeley (#31) 
• -10: Vanderbilt (#50) 
• -9: Houston (#41)
• -7: Florida State (#35) 
• -5: Loyola-L.A. (#18), Georgia (#41), University of Washington (#41)

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

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2025-26 U.S. News Law School Peer Reputation Rankings (And Overall Rankings)

Continuing a TaxProf Blog tradition (see links below for 2008-09 to 2024-25), here is the full list of the 195 law schools ranked by academic peer reputation, as well as their overall rank, in the new 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings (methodology):

Peer Rank	Peer Score	School	Overall Rank
1	4.7	Harvard	6
1	4.7	Stanford	1
3	4.6	Chicago	3
4	4.5	Columbia	10
4	4.5	Yale	1
6	4.4	NYU	8
6	4.4	UC-Berkeley	13
6	4.4	Virginia	4
9	4.3	Duke	6
9	4.3	Michigan	8
9	4.3	Penn	5
12	4.2	Cornell	18
12	4.2	Georgetown	14
12	4.2	UCLA	12
15	4.1	Northwestern	10
15	4.1	Texas	14
17	3.9	Vanderbilt	14
18	3.7	Minnesota	20
18	3.7	Notre Dame	20
18	3.7	USC	26
18	3.7	Washington Univ.	14
22	3.6	Boston University	22
22	3.6	Emory	38
22	3.6	UC-Davis	50
25	3.5	George Washington	31
25	3.5	Georgia	22
25	3.5	North Carolina	18
25	3.5	UC-Irvine	38
25	3.5	Wisconsin	28
30	3.4	Boston College	25
30	3.4	Florida	38
30	3.4	Ohio State	28
30	3.4	William & Mary	31
34	3.3	Alabama	31
34	3.3	Arizona State	45
34	3.3	Colorado	46
34	3.3	Fordham	38
34	3.3	Indiana (Maurer)	46
34	3.3	Iowa	36
34	3.3	University of Washington	50
41	3.2	Illinois	48
41	3.2	University of Arizona	59
41	3.2	Utah	31
41	3.2	Wake Forest	26
41	3.2	Washington & Lee	36
46	3.1	Florida State	38
46	3.1	Maryland	63
46	3.1	Texas A&M	22
46	3.1	Tulane	71
46	3.1	UC Law - SF	88
51	3.0	BYU	28
51	3.0	Connecticut	50
51	3.0	San Diego	57
54	2.9	American	104
54	2.9	Cardozo	63
54	2.9	Denver	88
54	2.9	Georgia State	79
54	2.9	Howard	127
54	2.9	Oregon	94
54	2.9	Temple	50
61	2.8	Houston	63
61	2.8	Kansas	50
61	2.8	Miami	92
61	2.8	Pepperdine	55
61	2.8	Richmond	71
61	2.8	Rutgers	104
61	2.8	Tennessee	55
61	2.8	UNLV	79
61	2.8	Villanova	48
70	2.7	Case Western	107
70	2.7	George Mason	31
70	2.7	Kentucky	68
70	2.7	Loyola-Chicago	79
70	2.7	Northeastern	68
70	2.7	SMU	43
70	2.7	South Carolina	63
77	2.6	Brooklyn	117
77	2.6	Hawaii	99
77	2.6	Loyola-L.A.	71
77	2.6	Michigan State	115
77	2.6	Missouri-Columbia	57
77	2.6	Oklahoma	59
77	2.6	Pittsburgh	79
77	2.6	Santa Clara	156
77	2.6	Seattle	127
86	2.5	Arkansas-Fayetteville	115
86	2.5	Baylor	43
86	2.5	Chicago-Kent	107
86	2.5	Indiana (McKinney)	107
86	2.5	Lewis & Clark	99
86	2.5	Marquette	59
86	2.5	Nebraska	71
86	2.5	Penn State-Dickinson	59
86	2.5	Penn State-University Park	68
86	2.5	Seton Hall	71
86	2.5	St. Louis	94
86	2.5	Wayne State	71
98	2.4	DePaul	133
98	2.4	Drexel	79
98	2.4	Louisiana State	84
98	2.4	New Mexico	107
98	2.4	St. John's	63
98	2.4	Syracuse	107
104	2.3	Baltimore	139
104	2.3	Catholic	71
104	2.3	Cincinnati	71
104	2.3	CUNY	156
104	2.3	Gonzaga	141
104	2.3	Hofstra	125
104	2.3	Louisville	146
104	2.3	Loyola-New Orleans	134
104	2.3	Mississippi	121
113	2.2	Florida Int'l	84
113	2.2	Illinois-Chicago	169
113	2.2	Maine	88
113	2.2	Missouri-Kansas City	99
113	2.2	Pacific	163
113	2.2	St. Thomas (MN)	94
113	2.2	Stetson	99
113	2.2	Suffolk	127
113	2.2	SUNY-Buffalo	94
122	2.1	Albany	117
122	2.1	Arkansas-Little Rock	139
122	2.1	Creighton	148
122	2.1	Drake	84
122	2.1	Idaho	141
122	2.1	Mercer	107
122	2.1	Mitchell | Hamline	154
122	2.1	New Hampshire	125
122	2.1	New York Law School	121
122	2.1	Pace	141
122	2.1	Quinnipiac	141
122	2.1	Texas Tech	88
122	2.1	Tulsa	127
122	2.1	Vermont	163
122	2.1	Washburn	121
122	2.1	Willamette	150
122	2.1	Wyoming	117
139	2.0	Cleveland State	121
139	2.0	Duquesne	92
139	2.0	Montana	99
139	2.0	San Francisco	166
139	2.0	West Virginia	117
139	2.0	Widener (DE)	169
145	1.9	Akron	127
145	1.9	Dayton	107
145	1.9	Detroit Mercy	134
145	1.9	Elon	158
145	1.9	Memphis	146
145	1.9	North Dakota	161
145	1.9	Northern Illinois	150
145	1.9	South Dakota	127
145	1.9	Southwestern	154
145	1.9	St. Mary's	148
155	1.8	District of Columbia	Tier 2
155	1.8	North Carolina Central	Tier 2
155	1.8	Roger Williams	169
155	1.8	Samford	107
155	1.8	South Texas	138
155	1.8	Southern Illinois	175
155	1.8	Southern	175
155	1.8	Toledo	150
155	1.8	Widener (PA)	175
164	1.7	Belmont	84
164	1.7	Chapman	104
164	1.7	Florida A&M	Tier 2
164	1.7	Massachusetts	161
164	1.7	North Texas	163
164	1.7	Northern Kentucky	134
164	1.7	Puerto Rico	175
164	1.7	Touro	169
172	1.6	Cal-Western	Tier 2
172	1.6	Campbell	134
172	1.6	John Marshall (GA)	Tier 2
172	1.6	Mississippi College	158
172	1.6	New England	166
172	1.6	Nova	Tier 2
172	1.6	Ohio Northern	Tier 2
172	1.6	Oklahoma City	158
172	1.6	Texas Southern	Tier 2
181	1.5	Capital	174
181	1.5	Pontifical Catholic (PR)	Tier 2
181	1.5	Regent	94
181	1.5	Western New England	166
185	1.4	Charleston	Tier 2
185	1.4	Inter-American (PR)	Tier 2
185	1.4	Liberty	141
185	1.4	Lincoln Memorial	169
185	1.4	St. Thomas (FL)	Tier 2
185	1.4	Western State	Tier 2
191	1.3	Appalachian	Tier 2
191	1.3	Ave Maria	153
191	1.3	Barry	Tier 2
191	1.3	Cooley	Tier 2
191	1.3	Faulkner	Tier 2

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• Axios, Harvard Law School Ties Duke in Rankings Shake-Up
• Kaplan Survey, 62% Of Law School Admissions Officers Increasingly Say the Rankings Have Lost Prestige
• Law.com, Cornell Drops Out of T14, Harvard Slips to 6th in US News Law School Rankings
• Law.com, 'Like Oprah Handing Out T14 Titles': Redditors Air Grievances Over US News Law School Rankings
• Robert Morse (Chief Data Strategist, U.S. News) & Eric Brooks (Principal Data Analyst, U.S. News), Changes for the 2025 Best Graduate Schools Edition: Updates This Year Include Three New Rankings of Law Schools
• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Elite Schools Got What They Wanted—A More Transparent, Volatile Rankings System That Disadvantages Them
• Reuters, US News & World Report Law School Rankings Show Shakeup at the Top 

Prior Years' U.S. News Peer Reputation And Overall Rankings:

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Tobin: XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase)

For the third year in a row (The Silly U.S. News Law School Rankings (2024-25), A Preliminary Analysis Of The New U.S. News Law School Rankings (2023-24)), Donald Tobin shares his thoughts on the forthcoming U.S. News Law School Rankings:  XPT Top 25 Law School Rankings (Alpha Phase), by Donald Tobin (Maryland; Google Scholar):

This year I took a different approach to the law school rankings. I asked experts in legal education to rank the top 25 law schools. I am referring to these as the XPT Rankings. As a warning, this ranking is in the Alpha Phase (which today I learned is when something is in the initial test stage. This is even before beta). Our experts all have significant years in legal education, either as an educator, leader, vendor, consultant or commentator. This year’s group of experts was small, and I stayed away from faculty members. I recognize that based on how I selected this year’s group, we missed lots of great faculty, administrators and other experts who have broad knowledge about legal education. We hope to include a wider group of experts next year. I am not asserting that this meets a rigorous statistical test nor that these rankings are objective. Also, for this year, I am not listing the experts to provide anonymity as the Alpha version is tested. In future years, I hope to provide more details about the methodology. (So please don’t tell me this is not a rigorous study. For the record, this is not a rigorous study). For this year, think of this group like a small NCAA Selection Committee, but a committee who picked teams you liked. 

Here are the XPT Top 25 Rankings for the 2025:

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Fischman: A Statistical Approach To Law School Citation Rankings

Joshua Fischman (Virginia; Google Scholar), A Statistical Approach to Law School Citation Rankings, 21 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 632 (2024): 

Citation rankings have emerged as a popular approach to ranking the scholarly impact of law faculties. This paper develops a statistical approach for inferring faculty quality from citation counts and determining when differences among law schools are significant. Statistical tests demonstrate that the distribution of citations within faculties closely follows the lognormal distribution, subject to small adjustments. This suggests a simple test for comparing faculties: whether they could be drawn from lognormal distributions with the same log mean. Under this approach, the geometric mean of citations is the most efficient measure for summarizing faculty quality. Using citation data collected from HeinOnline, this article provides a citation ranking for 195 law schools in the United States. Most differences between peer schools are statistically insignificant, and confidence intervals on citation ranks are extremely wide. Except for the highest-ranked faculties, citation rankings provide little information on the relative quality of faculties.

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The Best Law Schools For Practical Training

The Best Law Schools For Practical Training, preLaw (Spring 2025):

Preparing students for practice is the signature goal of many law schools. We spotlight 64 schools that excel when it comes to providing hands-on, practical experience through clinics, externships and other offerings. ...

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2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings

U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2025-26 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 8th (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, March 25th):

Outcomes are critical when considering an advanced degree. That is why three brand new law school rankings that compare schools on different career outcomes for graduates will be unveiled with the overall rankings this year.

Because the rankings should be a starting point and not an end point in research, U.S. News offers the MyLaw Rankings quiz that enables users to create custom rankings based on preferences. The law school search function also enables users to find schools based on information that is not collected by the American Bar Association, such as average starting salary and graduate employment. This was further facilitated this year by 10 additional law schools compared to the prior year having reported data to U.S. News, mirrored by improved response rates in the qualitative assessments U.S. News sends to top law school officials and legal professionals.

Companion methodologies for all graduate-level disciplines will outline any changes in the formulas. While there will be limited changes in how some ranking factors were calculated, this edition features no completely new ranking factors in any multifactor rankings, nor changes in how those factors were weighted. ...

As an additional procedural step in this year's rankings that used statistical survey data, schools were given a second opportunity to review their submitted surveys after being reminded of the survey questions and provided a draft rank using their initially supplied data. This step was done so schools could detect any reporting issues well in advance of publication.

Altogether, there will be updated annual comparisons of schools in law, education, engineering and medicine. Program-level rankings will be updated for part-time law, full-time and part-time MBAs, and graduate degrees in computer science, nursing, public affairs and public health. Finally, there will again be rankings of specialties in several of these disciplines. ...

Law Schools

• Overall

13 specialties: business/corporate; clinical; constitutional; contracts/commercial; criminal; dispute resolution; environmental; health care; intellectual property; international; legal writing; tax; trial advocacy

• Part-time Programs
• Career Outcomes

Derek Muller (Notre Dame), USNWR Promises Three New Employment Rankings For Law Schools in its 2025 Rankings Release

Here is my coverage of the current 2024-25 law school rankings:

• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Did U.S. News Change Its Law School Rankings Methodology To Avoid A Steeper Fall For Cornell And NYU? (Apr. 9, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Tax Rankings (Apr. 10, 2024) 
• Commentary On The 2024-25 U.S. News Law School Rankings (Apr. 10, 2024)
• Derek Muller (Notre Dame), Law Schools That Don't Double The Size Of Their Career Development Departments In Response To U.S. News Are Committing 'Academic Malpractice' (Apr. 10, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings (Apr. 11, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings (Apr. 12, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings (Apr. 13, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings (Apr. 14, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings (Apr. 15, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings (Apr. 16, 2024)
• U.S. News Rankings Potpourri: Waning Influence, Penalizing 53 Boycotting Law Schools, And Declining T14 Lawyer|Judge Reputation Scores (Apr. 16, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings (Apr. 17, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings (Apr. 18, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings (Apr. 19, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News International Law Rankings (Apr. 20, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Legal Writing Rankings (Apr. 21, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Trial Advocacy Rankings (Apr. 22, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings (Apr. 23, 2024)
• 2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings (Apr. 24, 2024)
• Quacquarelli Symonds, 2024 World Law School Rankings (Apr. 25, 2024)
• Reuters, Law School Class Of 2023 Jobs Rankings: Bar-Passage Required, BigLaw, Federal Judicial Clerkships, And Government|Public Interest (May 1, 2024)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources

In this post, I project the forthcoming 2025-26 U.S. News law school rankings using the 2024-25 rankings methodology and the publicly available ABA data, which accounted for 75% of the 2024-25 rankings:

• Admissions (10%):  Median LSAT (5%), Median UGPA (4%), Acceptance Rate (1%))
• Student Outcomes (58%):  Employment (33%), First-Time Bar Passage (18%), Ultimate Bar Passage (7%)
• Resources (7%):  Student-Faculty Ratio (5%), Student-Librarian Ratio (2%) 

My projected rankings below assume the same dean|faculty (12.5%) and lawyer|judge (12.5%) reputation scores for the remaining 25% of the 2024-25 rankings. I also include the projected rankings from Derek Muller (Notre Dame) and Mike Spivey (Spivey Consulting). Mike  published his raw scores for each school and listed the projected rankings in 29 different groupings. The table below lists the projected ranks based on the raw scores. Most commentators anticipate that U.S. News will tinker with the methodology in the forthcoming 2025-26 rankings, so take the projections below with a grain of salt.

School	Caron Projected Rank	Muller Projected Rank	Spivey Projected Rank		Admissions Rank	Student Outcomes Rank	Resources Rank	Reputation Rank
Chicago	1	2	3		4	3	16	3
Yale	2	3	2		1	7	3	4
Stanford	3	1	1		7	14	4	1
Virginia	4	4	4		3	1	34	7
Penn	5	4	5		8	2	11	10
Harvard	6	4	6		2	11	78	2
Duke	7	7	7		18	4	22	11
NYU	8	10	10		12	8	37	6
Northwestern	9	7	9		6	10	8	11
Columbia	10	10	11		10	17	51	4
Michigan	11	7	8		20	5	68	7
UCLA	12	12	12		9	16	25	15
UC-Berkeley	13	13	13		23	25	42	9
Vanderbilt	14	14	15		22	15	35	17
Washington Univ.	15	14	14		5	12	19	19
Texas	16	16	17		15	19	54	16
Georgetown	17	16	16		13	28	30	13
Cornell	18	19	18		16	30	26	13
North Carolina	19	16	19		29	9	43	21
Notre Dame	20	20	20		27	23	55	18
Minnesota	21	21	21		28	21	9	23
Boston Univ.	22	22	22		24	24	33	23
Georgia	23	22	23		17	22	40	31
Texas A&M	24	24	24		11	6	21	60
Boston College	25	24	25		34	20	45	27
Wake Forest	26	24	26		37	13	86	37
Wisconsin	27	38	29		42	18	66	34
USC	28	24	27		14	39	60	20
Alabama	29	28	34		26	27	48	41
William & Mary	30	28	32		52	35	50	25
Ohio State	31	28	30		33	37	44	36
George Mason	32	28	31		19	31	6	57
George Washington	33	36	35		31	46	27	25
Washington & Lee	34	28	36		46	33	63	33
UC-Irvine	35	36	41		35	44	31	32
Utah	36	38	33		36	32	18	51
BYU	37	28	28		25	38	13	46
Florida	38	28	38		21	45	92	29
Florida State	39	28	40		30	34	12	50
Emory	40	38	43		44	50	69	22
Fordham	41	42	39		40	41	73	29
Iowa	42	38	37		72	36	89	34
Baylor	43	42	42		55	26	41	62
SMU	44	42	44		38	29	67	63
Arizona State	45	45	45		32	53	56	41
Colorado	46	46	47		49	60	32	44
Indiana (Maurer)	47	46	46		39	66	47	39
U. of Washington	48	54	54		71	58	53	39
Villanova	49	48	49		43	47	72	57
UC-Davis	50	48	51		64	61	146	28

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

In the current 2024-25 methodology, resources count 7% in the overall ranking:

• Student-Faculty Ratio (5%)
• Librarian-Student Ratio (2%)

Below are two resource rankings. The first is a simple ranking using the above weights. The second uses Z-scores with the above weights to better approximate the U.S. News methodology. 

Rank	School	Student-Faculty Ratio Rank	Library Resources Rank	Weighted Rank
1	Jacksonville	1 (3.24)	1 (20.00)	1.00
2	Stanford	5 (4.20)	3 (33.24)	4.43
3	Hawaii	4 (4.15)	8 (39.76)	5.14
3	University of Arizona	2 (3.45)	13 (44.35)	5.14
5	Yale	8 (4.33)	2 (21.34)	6.29
6	George Mason	6 (4.21)	11 (42.31)	7.43
7	Cleveland State	3 (4.06)	27 (54.95)	9.86
8	Minnesota	10 (4.63)	10 (40.91)	10.00
9	New Mexico	15 (4.81)	6 (37.50)	12.43
10	Penn	14 (4.76)	12 (42.58)	13.43
11	Florida State	12 (4.71)	18 (50.78)	13.71
12	Northwestern	7 (4.22)	44 (62.67)	17.57
13	SUNY-Buffalo	19 (4.89)	16 (48.22)	18.14
14	BYU	26 (5.05)	4 (36.90)	19.71
15	Chicago	13 (4.74)	37 (59.40)	19.86
16	Connecticut	25 (5.05)	9 (40.39)	20.43
17	Richmond	22 (4.94)	19 (51.00)	21.14
18	Utah	17 (4.82)	35 (58.20)	22.14
19	Washington Univ.	21 (4.91)	29 (55.79)	23.29
20	Texas A&M	9 (4.63)	68 (74.28)	25.86
21	Pittsburgh	11 (4.67)	65 (70.55)	26.43
22	Duke	30 (5.41)	21 (51.86)	27.43
23	UCLA	33 (5.62)	17 (49.24)	28.43
24	Cincinnati	31 (5.58)	28 (55.29)	30.14
25	Catholic	41 (5.84)	5 (37.30)	30.71
26	Colorado	35 (5.69)	26 (54.56)	32.43
27	UC-Irvine	40 (5.84)	14 (45.05)	32.57
28	Boston Univ.	34 (5.68)	34 (57.23)	34.00
29	Virginia	38 (5.74)	33 (56.94)	36.57
30	Georgia State	36 (5.72)	47 (64.67)	39.14
31	Temple	18 (4.87)	93 (88.67)	39.43
32	Vanderbilt	37 (5.73)	46 (64.00)	39.57
33	Maryland	47 (6.06)	25 (53.01)	40.71
34	George Washington	28 (5.11)	73 (78.60)	40.86
35	Georgia	48 (6.07)	24 (53.00)	41.14
36	Cornell	20 (4.90)	98 (90.15)	42.29
37	North Carolina	54 (6.19)	15 (47.67)	42.86
38	Ohio State	46 (6.04)	38 (59.41)	43.71
38	Quinnipiac	16 (4.82)	113 (97.33)	43.71
40	Tennessee	50 (6.12)	30 (56.29)	44.29
41	UC-Berkeley	32 (5.59)	76 (80.23)	44.57
42	Boston College	45 (5.98)	45 (63.75)	45.00
43	NYU	29 (5.40)	87 (85.44)	45.57
44	Georgetown	23 (4.95)	103 (91.98)	45.86
45	Indiana (Maurer)	58 (6.22)	36 (58.78)	51.71
46	Alabama	60 (6.33)	32 (56.80)	52.00
47	Vermont	27 (5.10)	120 (102.00)	53.57
48	Columbia	49 (6.09)	67 (74.21)	54.14
49	William & Mary	67 (6.47)	22 (52.80)	54.14
50	Drexel	42 (5.86)	85 (85.20)	54.29

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

In the current 2024-25 methodology, student outcomes count 58% in the overall ranking:

• First-Time Bar Passage (18%)
• Ultimate Bar Passage (7%)
• Employment (33%)

Below are two student outcome rankings. The first is a simple ranking using the above weights. The second uses Z-scores with the above weights to better approximate the U.S. News methodology.

Rank	School	First-Time Bar Passage Rank	Ultimate Bar Passage Rank	Employment Rank	Weighted Ranks
1	Virginia	4	9	2	3.47
2	Penn	9	14	3	6.19
3	Duke	10	5	5	6.55
4	Chicago	6	1	10	7.67
5	Michigan	2	19	12	9.74
6	Texas A&M	25	15	1	10.14
7	NYU	11	7	13	11.66
8	Yale	5	12	16	12.10
9	Wake Forest	18	32	6	12.86
10	Northwestern	20	21	8	13.29
11	North Carolina	8	53	9	14.00
12	Washington Univ.	24	41	4	14.67
13	UCLA	14	26	15	16.02
14	Columbia	17	39	11	16.24
15	Harvard	1	6	28	16.97
16	Vanderbilt	7	24	22	17.59
17	Stanford	3	4	31	19.05
18	Minnesota	35	13	17	22.10
19	Georgia	29	10	23	23.29
20	Texas	22	16	26	23.55
21	Wisconsin	13	3	34	23.74
22	Boston College	15	29	30	25.22
23	Notre Dame	19	49	24	25.47
24	Boston Univ.	38	17	21	25.79
25	UC-Berkeley	20	8	37	28.22
26	SMU	59	58	6	28.72
27	Alabama	28	33	29	29.17
28	Georgetown	33	40	25	29.29
29	George Mason	51	30	18	29.69
30	Baylor	23	28	35	30.43
31	Cornell	27	48	33	32.95
32	Utah	36	18	36	33.83
33	Washington & Lee	48	66	20	34.24
34	Florida State	58	71	19	37.38
35	Iowa	63	90	14	38.38
36	Ohio State	30	34	46	39.59
37	USC	45	20	43	40.84
38	Kansas	42	22	49	43.57
39	Fordham	52	25	44	44.19
40	Penn State-Univ. Park	46	55	42	44.81
41	William & Mary	12	27	68	45.67
42	BYU	26	2	66	45.86
43	George Washington	62	43	38	46.05
44	UC-Irvine	41	59	48	47.16
45	St. John's	67	35	39	47.21
46	Florida	68	72	31	47.43
47	Oklahoma	34	44	58	48.86
48	Penn State-Dickinson	66	52	40	49.52
49	Villanova	43	65	53	51.34
50	Kentucky	88	95	27	54.14

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

The current 2024-25 methodology is: 

Outcomes 10 months after graduation (weighted 33%):This measures the extent by which graduates obtain the most in-demand jobs – namely those that are long term, full time and requiring (or taking advantage of) bar passage. Once again, maximum credit was assigned for graduates with school-funded fellowships – as long as those fellowships were otherwise full-time, long-term jobs in which bar passage was required or the J.D. degree was an advantage. Maximum credit was also once again assigned to law school graduates pursuing additional graduate studies.

To improve measurement of this indicator – given the common year-to-year fluctuations associated with outcome measures and the small sizes of some graduating J.D. classes – this indicator was derived from the average of the 2021 and 2022 graduating class outcomes 10 months after graduation. Specifically, U.S. News took a nonweighted average by aggregating the score it previously computed from the 2021 graduating class with the newly calculated 2022 class score, then divided it by two. Previously, this indicator was based only on the most recent year.

For information purposes, U.S. News published a 10 months after graduation employment percentage outcome that equals the proportion of 2022 graduates in all the job types that U.S. News weighs 100% for the purpose of calculating a weighted average in the 10-month employment ranking indicator. However, the actual value used in the rankings is an index that also awards partial credit for other outcomes values, and is described below. As previously stated, U.S. News used data for two graduating classes in the calculations.

These partially weighted jobs that were some combination of particular factors, namely short term and part time, in many cases funded by the law school and/or not utilizing bar passage received less credit by varying amounts, determined by an allocation of some or all of these factors.

Law schools are required to report these highly differentiated outcome measures each year to the ABA. For a more detailed explanation, see Notes on Employment Rates below.

Below is a ranking of the unweighted average employment 10 months after graduation for classes of 2022 and 2023. For comparison, the average unweighted average employment 10 months after graduation for classes of 2021 and 2022 (and the ranking of that average) are included alongside.  As noted below, U.S. News does not reveal the weights it gives to the 45 different job types, employment statuses, and durations. 

Rank	School	2025-2026 Employment	2024-2025 Employment
1	Texas A&M	99.71%	97.05% (9)
2	Virginia	99.19%	98.28% (3)
3	Penn	99.04%	98.65% (2)
4	Washington Univ.	98.90%	96.41% (11)
5	Duke	98.48%	98.74% (1)
6	SMU	98.20%	95.25% (17)
7	Wake Forest	98.20%	97.03% (10)
8	Northwestern	98.17%	97.78% (6)
9	North Carolina	98.15%	96.30% (13)
10	Chicago	97.91%	97.91% (5)
11	Columbia	97.51%	97.95% (4)
12	Michigan	97.48%	96.26% (14)
13	NYU	97.37%	97.66% (7)
14	Iowa	97.26%	95.11% (19)
15	UCLA	97.11%	96.04% (15)
16	Yale	97.06%	96.31% (12)
17	Minnesota	96.83%	95.19% (18)
18	George Mason	96.68%	93.25% (34)
19	Florida State	96.59%	92.18% (46)
20	Washington & Lee	96.52%	93.22% (35)
21	Boston Univ.	96.38%	92.23% (45)
22	Vanderbilt	96.19%	95.11% (20)
23	Georgia	96.10%	97.21% (8)
24	Notre Dame	95.91%	93.17% (37)
25	Georgetown	95.78%	94.70% (24)
26	Texas	95.77%	94.12% (28)
27	Kentucky	95.74%	94.67% (25)
28	Harvard	95.70%	94.09% (30)
29	Alabama	95.67%	92.64% (42)
30	Boston College	95.65%	93.36% (33)
31	Florida	95.43%	93.05% (40)
32	Stanford	95.43%	94.36% (27)
33	Cornell	95.31%	94.96% (22)
34	Wisconsin	95.14%	91.95% (47)
35	Baylor	94.78%	91.60% (50)
36	Utah	94.57%	94.12% (29)
37	UC-Berkeley	94.37%	95.05% (21)
38	George Washington	93.83%	90.13% (61)
39	St. John's	93.78%	91.93% (48)
40	Penn State-Dickinson	93.62%	89.31% (70)
41	Drexel	93.52%	92.38% (44)
42	Penn State-Univ. Park	93.50%	89.34% (68)
43	USC	93.38%	95.38% (16)
44	Fordham	93.35%	93.92% (31)
45	Wayne State	93.34%	93.17% (38)
46	Ohio State	93.23%	94.55% (26)
47	San Diego	93.22%	88.23% (80)
48	UC-Irvine	93.15%	87.96% (83)
49	Kansas	93.08%	94.93% (23)
50	Pepperdine	92.86%	91.36% (52)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

The current 2024-25 methodology is: 

Ultimate bar passage rate (7%): While passing the bar on the first try is optimal, passing eventually is critical. Underscoring this is the ABA's accreditation standard that at least 75% of a law school's test-taking graduates must pass a bar exam within two years of earning a diploma.

Like the previous two outcome measures, the ultimate bar passage rate indicator was newly calculated as a two-year, nonweighted average.

With that in mind, the ultimate bar passage ranking factor measures the average percentage of each law school's 2019 and 2020 graduates who sat for a bar exam and passed it within two years of graduation, including diploma privilege graduates.

Both the first-time bar passage and ultimate bar passage indicators were used to determine if a particular law school is offering students a rigorous program of legal education. The first-time bar passage indicator was assigned greater weight because of the greater granularity of its data and its wider variance of outcomes.

Below is a ranking of the unweighted average ultimate bar passage for 2020 and 2021 graduates. For comparison, the average unweighted ultimate bar passage for 2019 and 2020 graduates (and the ranking of that average) are included alongside. 

Rank	School	2025-2026 Ultimate Bar Passage	2024-2025 Ultimate Bar Passage
1	Chicago	99.76%	99.75% (1)
2	BYU	99.51%	97.69% (25)
3	Wisconsin	99.47%	99.33% (6)
4	Stanford	99.41%	99.44% (4)
5	Duke	99.35%	99.54% (2)
6	Harvard	99.33%	99.15% (9)
7	NYU	99.25%	98.63% (14)
8	UC-Berkeley	99.23%	99.54% (2)
9	Virginia	99.21%	99.33% (5)
10	Georgia	99.17%	97.78% (23)
11	Marquette	99.11%	99.11% (10)
12	Yale	99.00%	99.00% (12)
13	Minnesota	98.79%	99.09% (11)
14	Penn	98.78%	98.17% (16)
15	Texas A&M	98.69%	97.94% (21)
16	Texas	98.57%	98.17% (18)
17	Boston Univ.	98.41%	98.13% (19)
18	Utah	98.26%	98.10% (20)
19	Michigan	98.21%	98.77% (13)
20	USC	98.11%	96.64% (37)
21	Northwestern	98.00%	97.90% (22)
22	Kansas	97.96%	95.83% (51)
23	University of Washington	97.96%	94.50% (70)
24	Vanderbilt	97.79%	96.85% (34)
25	Fordham	97.78%	97.02% (31)
26	UCLA	97.71%	98.55% (15)
27	William & Mary	97.69%	96.77% (35)
28	Baylor	97.68%	99.27% (7)
29	Boston College	97.64%	97.15% (30)
30	George Mason	97.47%	98.17% (17)
31	Montana	97.10%	96.36% (44)
32	Wake Forest	97.03%	96.23% (45)
33	Alabama	96.86%	99.21% (8)
34	Ohio State	96.72%	95.96% (48)
35	St. John's	96.67%	95.05% (61)
36	Liberty	96.62%	97.20% (29)
37	Indiana (Maurer)	96.59%	94.77% (66)
38	Loyola-L.A.	96.55%	95.55% (57)
39	Columbia	96.45%	95.90% (50)
40	Georgetown	96.37%	96.00% (47)
41	Washington Univ.	96.34%	97.76% (24)
42	Regent	96.26%	93.71% (82)
43	George Washington	96.11%	95.76% (54)
44	Oklahoma	96.08%	96.39% (42)
45	St. Louis	95.96%	94.89% (63)
46	Nebraska	95.94%	94.72% (68)
47	Florida Int'l	95.88%	97.42% (28)
48	Cornell	95.82%	97.68% (26)
49	Notre Dame	95.77%	96.40% (40)
50	Texas Tech	95.68%	93.86% (78)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage

Following up on my previous posts: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

The current 2024-25 methodology is: 

Bar passage rate for first-time test-takers (18%): For the third consecutive year, U.S. News used its treatment of bar passage rates to incorporate all graduates who took the bar for the first time, and not just those from the state with most test-takers. This de-emphasized the impact of geography on law schools' relative performance.

As was done with the 10 months after graduation indicator, this bar passage indicator was newly calculated as a two-year, nonweighted average pertaining to the 2021 and 2022 graduating classes.

Specifically, the bar passage rate indicator scored schools on their average 2021 and 2022 first-time test-takers' weighted bar passage rates among all jurisdictions, or states, then added or subtracted the average percentage point difference between those rates and the weighted state average among ABA accredited schools' first-time test-takers in the corresponding jurisdictions in 2021 and 2022. This meant schools that performed best on this ranking factor graduated students whose bar passage rates were both higher than most schools overall and higher compared with what was typical among graduates who took the bar in corresponding jurisdictions.

For example, if a fictional law school in upstate New York graduated 100 students who first took the bar exam – and 79 took the New York exam, 18 the Massachusetts exam and three the Vermont exam – the school's weighted average rate would use pass rate results that were weighted 79% for New York, 18% for Massachusetts and 3% for Vermont. This computation would then be compared with an index of these jurisdictions' average pass rates – also weighted 79-18-3. (For privacy, school profiles on usnews.com only display bar passage data for jurisdictions with at least 10 test-takers.) Both weighted averages included any graduates who passed the bar with diploma privilege. Diploma privilege is a method for J.D. graduates to be admitted to a state bar and allowed to practice law in that state without taking that state's actual bar examination. Diploma privilege is generally based on attending and graduating from a law school in that state with the diploma privilege.

Below is a ranking of the unweighted average first-time bar passage for calendar years 2022 and 2023. For comparison, the average unweighted first-time bar passage for the calendar years 2021 and 2022 (and the ranking of that average) are included alongside. 

Rank	School	2025-2026 First-Time Bar Passage	2024-2025 First-Time Bar Passage
1	Harvard	115.22%	117.49% (1)
2	Michigan	115.15%	114.10% (3)
3	Stanford	114.70%	113.70% (5)
4	Virginia	113.49%	111.56% (8)
5	Yale	113.38%	114.37% (2)
6	Chicago	113.25%	114.02% (4)
7	Vanderbilt	111.68%	109.75% (14)
8	North Carolina	111.66%	106.75% (21)
9	Penn	110.87%	110.19% (13)
10	Duke	110.57%	112.66% (6)
11	NYU	110.22%	110.98% (9)
12	William & Mary	109.80%	110.19% (12)
13	Wisconsin	109.54%	104.74% (30)
14	UCLA	107.87%	110.69% (10)
15	Boston College	107.76%	105.36% (26)
16	Belmont	107.70%	103.91% (33)
17	Columbia	107.61%	107.46% (19)
18	Wake Forest	107.54%	107.82% (18)
19	Notre Dame	107.18%	107.22% (20)
20	UC-Berkeley	107.12%	112.03% (7)
21	Northwestern	107.12%	110.35% (11)
22	Texas	107.02%	107.95% (16)
23	Baylor	106.42%	104.19% (32)
24	Washington Univ.	105.76%	105.85% (23)
25	Texas A&M	105.18%	105.84% (24)
26	BYU	105.09%	106.73% (22)
27	Cornell	104.12%	100.77% (38)
28	Alabama	103.28%	100.99% (37)
29	Georgia	103.05%	105.18% (27)
30	Ohio State	102.89%	104.93% (29)
31	University of Washington	102.40%	100.67% (40)
32	Louisiana State	102.38%	91.90% (67)
33	Georgetown	102.28%	105.07% (28)
34	Oklahoma	102.05%	102.96% (35)
35	Minnesota	101.40%	107.94% (17)
36	Utah	101.14%	100.25% (42)
37	Florida Int'l	100.70%	99.90% (45)
38	Boston Univ.	100.25%	105.66% (25)
39	Regent	100.23%	92.17% (65)
40	Tennessee	98.85%	104.43% (31)
41	UC-Irvine	98.29%	98.07% (50)
42	Kansas	98.19%	102.24% (36)
43	Villanova	97.98%	94.94% (57)
44	Arizona State	97.86%	97.25% (51)
45	USC	97.81%	108.51% (15)
46	Penn State-Univ. Park	97.39%	99.30% (48)
47	Seton Hall	97.09%	103.65% (34)
48	Washington & Lee	96.99%	100.16% (43)
49	Emory	96.86%	99.97% (44)
50	Missouri-Columbia	96.56%	93.62% (61)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage

In the current 2024-25 methodology, law school admissions count 10% in the overall ranking:

• Acceptance Rate (1%)
• Median Undergraduate GPA (4%)
• Median LSAT (5%)

Below are two admissions rankings. The first is a simple ranking using the above weights. The second uses Z-scores with the above weights to better approximate the U.S. News methodology.

	School	Acceptance Rate Rank	UGPA Rank	LSAT Rank	Weighted Ranks
1	Yale	1	2	1	1.40
2	Harvard	4	5	1	2.90
3	Washington Univ.	25	2	3	4.80
4	Chicago	9	9	3	6.00
5	Stanford	2	11	3	6.10
5	Virginia	13	2	8	6.10
7	Northwestern	17	5	8	7.70
8	Penn	3	10	8	8.30
9	Columbia	6	20	3	10.10
10	UCLA	19	5	15	11.40
11	NYU	20	15	8	12.00
12	Georgetown	27	11	12	13.10
13	Cornell	33	23	3	14.00
13	Texas A&M	11	1	25	14.00
15	USC	8	15	19	16.30
16	Georgia	14	15	19	16.90
17	Texas	18	23	12	17.00
18	Duke	12	23	15	17.90
19	George Mason	15	11	25	18.40
20	Michigan	7	32	12	19.50
21	Florida	23	20	19	19.80
22	BYU	42	11	25	21.10
23	Vanderbilt	24	23	19	21.10
24	Boston Univ.	28	28	15	21.50
25	UC-Berkeley	21	30	15	21.60
26	Alabama	37	5	36	23.70
27	Florida State	26	15	36	26.60
28	Notre Dame	34	35	19	26.90
29	Minnesota	71	28	19	27.80
30	Arizona State	31	20	36	29.10
31	North Carolina	16	35	29	30.10
32	Ohio State	49	23	33	30.60
33	George Washington	65	30	25	31.00
34	UC-Irvine	22	41	29	33.10
35	Boston College	10	46	29	33.90
36	Utah	35	32	36	34.30
37	Wake Forest	38	38	33	35.50
38	SMU	54	32	36	36.20
39	Indiana (Maurer)	92	15	44	37.20
40	Wisconsin	46	41	36	39.00
41	Fordham	32	56	29	40.10
42	Pepperdine	44	35	44	40.40
43	Villanova	30	41	44	41.40
44	Emory	95	41	36	43.90
45	Tennessee	36	40	51	45.10
46	Cardozo	82	46	44	48.60
47	Washington & Lee	58	67	33	49.10
48	Colorado	77	49	44	49.30
49	Wayne State	48	38	60	50.00
50	Illinois	117	54	36	51.30

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions

Following up on this week's posts

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA

Rank	School	2024 LSAT	2023 LSAT
1	Harvard	174	174 (2)
1	Yale	174	175 (1)
3	Chicago	173	173 (3)
3	Columbia	173	173 (3)
3	Cornell	173	172 (7)
3	Stanford	173	173 (3)
3	Washington Univ.	173	173 (3)
8	Northwestern	172	172 (7)
8	NYU	172	172 (7)
8	Penn	172	172 (7)
8	Virginia	172	171 (11)
12	Georgetown	171	171 (11)
12	Michigan	171	171 (11)
12	Texas	171	171 (11)
15	Boston Univ.	170	170 (15)
15	Duke	170	170 (15)
15	UC-Berkeley	170	170 (15)
15	UCLA	170	170 (15)
19	Florida	169	169 (20)
19	Georgia	169	169 (20)
19	Minnesota	169	168 (24)
19	Notre Dame	169	169 (20)
19	USC	169	169 (20)
19	Vanderbilt	169	170 (15)
25	BYU	168	168 (24)
25	George Mason	168	168 (24)
25	George Washington	168	168 (24)
25	Texas A&M	168	166 (33)
29	Boston College	167	167 (28)
29	Fordham	167	167 (28)
29	North Carolina	167	166 (33)
29	UC-Irvine	167	167 (28)
33	Ohio State	166	165 (37)
33	Wake Forest	166	165 (37)
33	Washington & Lee	166	165 (37)
36	Alabama	165	167 (28)
36	Arizona State	165	167 (28)
36	Emory	165	166 (33)
36	Florida State	165	165 (37)
36	Illinois	165	165 (37)
36	SMU	165	164 (44)
36	Utah	165	164 (44)
36	Wisconsin	165	165 (37)
44	Cardozo	164	164 (44)
44	Colorado	164	164 (44)
44	Indiana (Maurer)	164	164 (44)
44	Pepperdine	164	164 (44)
44	Richmond	164	164 (44)
44	Villanova	164	164 (44)
44	William & Mary	164	166 (33)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA

Following up on yesterday's post, Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate: 

Rank	School	2024 UGPA	2023 UGPA
1	Texas A&M	3.97	3.97 (1)
2	Virginia	3.96	3.94 (6)
2	Washington Univ.	3.96	3.95 (3)
2	Yale	3.96	3.96 (2)
5	Alabama	3.95	3.95 (3)
5	Harvard	3.95	3.93 (9)
5	Northwestern	3.95	3.92 (10)
5	UCLA	3.95	3.92 (10)
9	Chicago	3.94	3.94 (6)
10	Penn	3.93	3.92 (10)
11	BYU	3.92	3.94 (6)
11	George Mason	3.92	3.89 (19)
11	Georgetown	3.92	3.91 (13)
11	Stanford	3.92	3.95 (3)
15	Florida State	3.91	3.85 (28)
15	Georgia	3.91	3.83 (33)
15	Indiana (Maurer)	3.91	3.86 (24)
15	NYU	3.91	3.90 (15)
15	USC	3.91	3.88 (21)
20	Arizona State	3.90	3.90 (15)
20	Columbia	3.90	3.90 (15)
20	Florida	3.90	3.91 (13)
23	Cornell	3.89	3.90 (15)
23	Duke	3.89	3.87 (22)
23	Ohio State	3.89	3.83 (33)
23	Texas	3.89	3.86 (24)
23	Vanderbilt	3.89	3.89 (19)
28	Boston Univ.	3.88	3.86 (24)
28	Minnesota	3.88	3.85 (28)
30	George Washington	3.87	3.85 (28)
30	UC-Berkeley	3.87	3.87 (22)
32	Michigan	3.86	3.85 (28)
32	SMU	3.86	3.83 (33)
32	Utah	3.86	3.85 (28)
35	North Carolina	3.85	3.78 (47)
35	Notre Dame	3.85	3.83 (33)
35	Pepperdine	3.85	3.86 (24)
38	Wake Forest	3.84	3.79 (43)
38	Wayne State	3.84	3.83 (33)
40	Tennessee	3.82	3.78 (47)
41	Cincinnati	3.81	3.80 (40)
41	Emory	3.81	3.82 (38)
41	UC-Irvine	3.81	3.72 (64)
41	Villanova	3.81	3.80 (40)
41	Wisconsin	3.81	3.79 (43)
46	Boston College	3.80	3.77 (50)
46	Cardozo	3.80	3.79 (43)
46	San Diego	3.80	3.80 (40)
49	Belmont	3.79	3.77 (50)
49	Colorado	3.79	3.81 (39)
49	Kansas	3.79	3.71 (70)

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Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Acceptance Rate

Update: 

• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Resources
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Outcomes
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Employment
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Ultimate Bar Passage
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: First-Time Bar Passage
• Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Admissions
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median UGPA
  • Preview Of The 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: Median LSAT

Rank	School	2024 Acceptance Rate	2023 Acceptance Rate
1	Yale	5.25	5.58 (1)
2	Stanford	8.85	7.26 (2)
3	Penn	9.95	9.88 (4)
4	Harvard	10.97	9.58 (3)
5	Ohio Northern	11.53	68.25 (184)
6	Columbia	11.75	12.23 (7)
7	Michigan	11.85	12.58 (9)
8	USC	12.41	12.52 (8)
9	Chicago	12.73	12.78 (10)
10	Boston College	13.27	13.38 (11)
11	Texas A&M	13.48	14.64 (13)
12	Duke	13.88	10.51 (5)
13	Virginia	13.92	11.46 (6)
14	Georgia	14.48	14.77 (14)
15	George Mason	14.60	14.03 (12)
16	North Carolina	15.18	16.27 (18)
17	Northwestern	15.36	15.53 (17)
18	Texas	15.60	14.90 (15)
19	UCLA	16.10	16.80 (21)
20	NYU	16.67	16.76 (19)
21	UC-Berkeley	17.30	14.92 (16)
22	UC-Irvine	17.38	18.18 (26)
23	Florida	17.44	17.01 (22)
24	Vanderbilt	18.45	16.76 (19)
25	Washington Univ.	19.90	17.16 (23)
26	Florida State	19.91	21.12 (29)
27	Georgetown	20.13	19.57 (28)
28	Boston Univ.	20.61	17.82 (25)
29	Florida Int'l	21.03	25.18 (35)
30	Villanova	21.93	22.50 (33)
31	Arizona State	22.05	21.28 (31)
32	Fordham	22.15	21.13 (30)
33	Cornell	23.11	19.30 (27)
34	Notre Dame	23.26	24.39 (34)
35	Utah	24.76	30.2 (48)
36	Tennessee	26.30	30.21 (49)
37	Alabama	26.58	26.62 (36)
38	Wake Forest	26.84	31.47 (54)
39	Baylor	26.93	17.77 (24)
40	Chapman	27.14	30.68 (50)
41	North Texas	27.68	30.06 (46)
42	BYU	27.76	28.77 (41)
43	Arkansas-Fayetteville	28.00	42.57 (98)
44	Houston	28.44	32.27 (56)
44	Pepperdine	28.44	28.18 (39)
46	Wisconsin	28.93	35.58 (71)
47	Miami	29.13	32.94 (58)
48	Wayne State	29.33	27.41 (38)
49	Ohio State	29.40	33.08 (59)
50	Marquette	29.42	45.51 (111)

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Trump's Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands Of Law Students (And Some Law Schools' Employment Outcomes And Rankings) Out In The Cold

Following up on Friday's posts:

• Department Of Justice Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program
• IRS Chief Counsel Rescinds Job Offers To 3Ls Accepted Into Honors Program

Reuters, Trump's Hiring Freeze Leaves Thousands of Law Students Out in the Cold:

A widespread federal government hiring freeze imposed by President Donald Trump last week has upended the job market for a wide swath of law students interested in government careers.

The U.S. Department of Justice and other federal agencies revoked permanent job offers to dozens of third-year law students hired through their prestigious and competitive honors programs in recent days and agencies have canceled summer internship programs, eliminating opportunities for hundreds more. Federal agencies have also pulled out of law student recruiting events and removed legal job postings from their websites.

The move has disrupted career plans for law students with permanent jobs lined up in federal agencies and those hoping to land summer internships to bolster their resume. More than 2,000 jobs and summer internships are canceled or on hold.

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2025 Religious Law School Rankings

Most Devout Law Schools, preLaw (Winter 2025):

Acts of Service: We recognize 20 law schools that are living their missions through benevolent works. ...

Every two years, preLaw magazine spotlights the country’s most devout law schools. Schools are ranked all together, rather than being categorized by denomination. ... The schools are ranked by how much emphasis they place on religion in their curriculum, faculty and daily campus life.

While 46 of the nation’s 197 law schools have ties to various religious organizations, there are big differences among them when it comes to acting on their faith.

Methodology:

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Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: The Biggest Winners And Losers

Derek Muller (Notre Dame; Google Scholar), Updated Projected 2025-2026 USNWR Law School Rankings (To Be Released March 2025 Or So):

The updated 509 data from the American Bar Association discloses a good deal of public information about law school admissions and law school faculty that is ultimately used in the USNWR law school rankings. We now have about 75% of the information that USNWR uses in its rankings and can do a pretty good job estimating it, subject to some methodological quirks that are hard to replicate and subject to the survey data that won’t be revealed until the spring (but that is notoriously sticky). It’s also possible USNWR modifies its methodology, of course. But I took the opportunity to update my projections from last spring now that we have even more data. ... [T]he new methodology means more compression and volatility, so proceed with caution! 

Derek projects the Top 100 schools in next year's 2025-26 rankings. Here are the largest projected increases among those schools:

Rank	School	Projected 2025-26 Rank	Current  2024-25 Rank	Difference
1	Maine	84	120	+36
2	Hawaii	100	127	+27
3	Pittsburgh	65	91	+26
4	Catholic	73	94	+21
5	Florida State	28	48	+20
6	Penn State-Dickinson	60	75	+15
7	San Diego	54	68	+14
8	Cincinnati	65	78	+13
8	Tulane	65	78	+13
10	Chapman	96	108	+12
10	SUNY-Buffalo	96	108	+12
12	LSU	80	91	+11
13	Nebraska	73	82	+9

Here are the largest projected decreases among those schools:

Rank	School	Projected 2025-26 Rank	Current  2024-25 Rank	Difference
1	Lewis & Clark	96	82	-14
1	Richmond	80	66	-14
3	Florida Int'l	80	68	-12
3	Illinois	48	36	-12
3	Marquette	80	68	-12
3	Oregon	94	82	-12
3	Seton Hall	73	61	-12
8	Utah	38	28	-10
8	Wayne State	65	55	-10
10	Arizona State	45	36	-9
10	Fordham	42	33	-9
10	Georgia State	84	75	-9
13	Drake	90	82	-8
13	Kansas	54	46	-8
13	Loyola-Chicago	86	78	-8
13	UC-San Francisco	90	82	-8

NY Times: Did Ben Sasse Resign As UF President Because Of U.S. News Rankings Decline Of University And Law School?

New York Times, A Star President’s Resignation Was a Mystery. Was It All About Rankings?:

Florida’s star president, Ben Sasse, was among the best paid university presidents ever. He promised a conservative overhaul, but then he resigned, leaving controversy and an embarrassing drop in the U.S. News rankings.

Ben Sasse, the Nebraska senator, arrived in Florida in February 2023 to help cement a conservative makeover of one of the nation’s top five public universities.

The University of Florida had lured the senator with an unusual $10 million, five-year contract, possibly the most lucrative ever for a public university president. Gov. Ron DeSantis applauded the selection of a fellow Republican, calling Dr. Sasse a “deep thinker on education policy.”

Then, in July, just 17 months into his contract at the Gainesville university, Dr. Sasse resigned, sparking a host of questions about what went wrong.

Dr. Sasse cited his wife’s deteriorating health as the reason for his departure. But observers of the university knew there were a number of other possible factors.

The former senator had never quite won over many professors or students. After he announced his resignation, there were revelations about questionable hiring practices and spending.

There were also signs that Dr. Sasse faced another problem that has haunted college leaders everywhere: the school’s U.S. News & World Report rankings.

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Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings: 1-11

In May, I blogged Derek Muller's Projected 2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings for the Top 100 law schools. Last week, Mike Spivey published projected rankings for the Top 11 law schools. The table below shows the differences between the two models for the Top 11 schools:

Law School	2024-25 Rank	Muller Projected 2025-26 Rank	Spivey Projected 2025-26 Rank
Stanford	1	1	1
Yale	1	3	2
Chicago	3	2	3
Duke	4	7	7
Harvard	4	5	4
Penn	4	5	4
Virginia	4	3	4
Columbia	8	9	8
Michigan	9	7	8
Northwestern	9	9	8
NYU	9	9	8

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2025 U.S. News College Rankings

U.S. News & World Report has released its 2025 College Rankings. Here are the Top 25 National Universities and Liberal Arts Colleges:

Rank	National Universities
1	Princeton
2	MIT
3	Harvard
4	Stanford
5	Yale
6	Cal-Tech
6	Duke
6	Johns Hopkins
6	Northwestern
10	Penn
11	Cornell
11	Chicago
13	Brown
13	Columbia
15	Dartmouth
15	UCLA
17	UC-Berkeley
18	Rice
18	Notre Dame
18	Vanderbilt
21	Carnegie Mellon
21	Michigan
21	Washington University
24	Emory
24	Georgetown
24	Virginia

Prior Years' U.S. News National University Rankings: 

• 2024
• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2019
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012
• 2011
• 2009

2025 U.S. News Liberal Arts College Rankings:

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The Most-Cited Deans At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools

Following up on last week's post, The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties: here are the 22 deans among the 10-most cited faculty at the Top 64 law schools:

6. UC-Berkeley: Erwin Chemerinsky
9. Vanderbilt: Chris Guthrie
18. UC-Davis: Kevin Johnson
20. Texas: Robert Chesney
23. Minnesota: William McGeveran; St. Thomas-MN: Daniel Kelly; William & Mary: A. Benjamin Spencer
26. USC: Franita Tolson
27. Boston University: Angela Onwuachi-Willig
30. Utah: Elizabeth Kronk Warner
34. Florida State: Erin O'Hara O'Connor; Ohio State: Kent Barnett; San Diego: Robert Schapiro
38. University of Arizona: Marc Miller
43. Case Western: Paul Rose; UC-San Francisco: David Faigman
47. Georgia: Peter Rutledge; San Francisco: Johanna Kalb; Temple: Rachel Rebouché
56. Iowa: Kevin Washburn
60. Pittsburgh: Mary Crossley; SMU: Jason Nance

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The Most-Cited Tax Faculty At The 64 Most-Cited Law Schools

Following up on last week's post, The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties:  here are the 13 Tax Profs among the 10-most cited faculty at the Top 64 law schools:

3. Harvard: Louis Kaplow
4. NYU: Daniel Hemel
14. Michigan: Reuven Avi-Yonah
18. UC-Davis: Darien Shanske
22. UC-Irvine: Victor Fleischer
23. Minnesota: Kristin Hickman
34. Cardozo: Edward Zelinsky; Florida State: Steve Johnson
42. BYU: Cliff Fleming
47. San Francisco: Joshua Rosenberg
56. Boston College: Diane Ring
60. Pittsburgh: Anthony Infanti; Santa Clara: Patricia Cain

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The 64 Most-Cited Law Faculties

Gregory C. Sisk (St. Thomas-MN; Google Scholar), Adam Bent (Florida), et al., Scholarly Impact of Law School Faculties in 2024: Updating the Leiter Score Ranking for the Top Third:

This updated 2024 study explores the scholarly impact of law faculties, ranking the top third of ABA-accredited law schools. Refined by Brian Leiter, the “Scholarly Impact Ranking” for a law faculty is calculated from the mean and the median of total law journal citations over the past five years to the work of tenured faculty members. In addition to a school-by-school ranking, we report the mean, median, and weighted score, along with a list of the tenured law faculty members at each school with the ten highest individual citation counts.

The law faculty at Yale continues to hold the top ranked position in the 2024 Scholarly Impact Ranking, with the University of Chicago at second, Harvard at third, New York University at fourth, and Columbia at fifth. The University of California-Berkeley remains in the sixth position with Pennsylvania moving up one spot to seventh. Stanford is at eight, and Vanderbilt remains at nine. Virginia, which had climbed from sixteenth in 2018 to ninth in 2021, remains in the top 10. ... 

Rank	School	Most Cited Scholars (* indicates 70 or older in 2024)	U.S. News Peer Rank	U.S. News Overall Rank
1	Yale	*Ackerman, Bruce A.; Amar, Akhil R.; Ayres, Ian; Balkin, Jack M.; *Eskridge, William, Jr.; Gluck, Abbe R.; Macey, Jonathan R.; *Post, Robert C.; *Resnik, Judith; Siegel, Reva B.	3	1
2	Chicago	Baude, William; BenShahar, Omri; Bradley, Curtis A.; Ginsburg, Tom; Huq, Aziz; *Nussbaum, Martha; Posner, Eric; *Stone, Geoffrey R.; Strahilevitz, Lior; *Strauss, David A.	3	3
3	Harvard	Bebchuk, Lucian A.; *Fallon, Richard H.; Goldsmith, Jack Landman; Kaplow, Louis; Klarman, Michael; Lessig, Lawrence; Manning, John F.; *Shavell, Steven M.; *Sunstein, Cass R.; Vermeule, Adrian	1	4
4	NYU	Barkow, Rachel E.; Choi, Stephen; *Epstein, Richard; Friedman, Barry; Hemel, Daniel; *Issacharoff, Samuel; Kahan, Marcel; *Miller, Arthur R.; *Miller, Geoffrey Parsons; Pildes, Richard H.; *Waldron, Jeremy	3	9
5	Columbia	*Coffee, John C., Jr.; Crenshaw, Kimberlé Williams; *Fagan, Jeffrey A.; *Gordon, Jeffrey N.; Greene, Jamal; Hamburger, Philip; *Merrill, Thomas W.; Metzger, Gillian E.; Pozen, David; Wu, Timothy	3	8
6	UC-Berkeley	Bridges, Khiara M.; *Chemerinsky, Erwin; *Farber, Daniel A; Haney Lopez, Ian F.; Kerr, Orin; Menell, Peter S.; Merges, Robert P.; *Samuelson, Pamela; Solomon, Steven Davidoff; Yoo, John Choon	7	12
7	Penn	Coglianese, Cary; Fisch, Jill E.; Hoffman, David; *Hovenkamp, Herbert; Mayson, Sandra G.; Parchomovsky, Gideon; Pollman, Elizabeth; Roberts, Dorothy E.; *Robinson, Paul H.; Skeel, David Arthur	10	4
8	Stanford	Engstrom, David Freeman; Karlan, Pamela S.; Lemley, Mark A.; McConnell, Michael W.; O’Connell, Anne Joseph; Ouellette, Lisa Larrimore; Persily, Nathaniel; *Polinsky, A. Mitchell; *Rabin, Robert L.; Sklansky, David Alan	1	1
9	Vanderbilt	Bressman, Lisa S.; Guthrie, Chris; King, Nancy J.; Rossi, Jim; *Rubin, Edward L.; Ruhl, J.B.; Sitaraman, Ganesh; *Slobogin, Christopher; Stack, Kevin; Thomas, Randall S.	17	19
10	Virginia	Cahn, Naomi R.; Citron, Danielle K.; Duffy, John F.; Gulati, G. Mitu; Nelson, Caleb E.; Prakash, Saikrishna; Re, Richard M.; *Schauer, Frederick; *Solum, Lawrence B.; *White, G. Edward	8	4
11	Duke	Adler, Matthew; Blocher, Joseph; *Cox, James D.; Garrett, Brandon; Lemos, Margaret H.; Purdy, Jedediah; Rai, Arti K.; *Schwarcz, Steven L.; Siegel, Neil S.; Young, Ernest A.	10	4
11	UCLA	Bainbridge, Stephen M.; Carbado, Devon Wayne; Crenshaw, Kimberle W.; Cummings, Scott L.; Eagly, Ingrid V.; Harris, Cheryl I.; Hasen, Richard L.; Kang, Jerry; Schwartz, Joanna; Winkler, Adam	13	13
13	Cornell	*Clermont, Kevin M.; Dorf, Michael C.; Grimmelmann, James; Heise, Michael; *Johnson, Sheri Lynn; Lahav, Alexandra D.; Omarova, Saule; Pasquale, Frank; Rachlinski, Jeffrey J.; Rahman, K. Sabeel; Tebbe, Nelson	13	14
14	Michigan	Avi-Yonah, Reuven S.; Bagley, Nicholas; Crane, Daniel; Fletcher, Matthew L.M.; Litman, Leah; *MacKinnon, Catharine A.; Mortenson, Julian Davis; Price, Nicholson; Primus, Richard; Schlanger, Margo; Walker, Christopher J.	8	9
15	Georgetown	*Barnett, Randy E.; Butler, Paul; Cohen, Julie E.; Cole, David D.; Goodwin, Michele; *Gostin, Lawrence O.; *Langevoort, Donald C.; Ohm, Paul; *Thompson, Robert B.; Vladeck, Stephen	13	14
16	Northwestern	*Black, Bernard; Calabresi, Steven G.; Clopton, Zachary; *Diamond, Shari; Koppelman, Andrew M.; McGinnis, John O. ; Pfander, James E.; *Redish, Martin H.; Schanzenbach, Max M.; Schwartz, David L.; Tuerkheimer, Deborah	10	9
17	George Washington	Abramowicz, Michael; Dodge, William; Franks, Mary Anne; *Glicksman, Robert L.; *Kovacic, William E.; Lee, Cynthia; Murphy, Sean D.; *Pierce, Richard J., Jr; Rosen, Jeffrey; Solove, Daniel J.	27	41
18	Emory	Ajunwa, Ifeoma; *Fineman, Martha Albertson; Hutchinson, Darren; Jacobi, Tonja; Nash, Jonathan; Quinn, Kevin M.; Roberts, Jessica L.; Sag, Matthew; Shepherd, Joanna M.; Smith, Fred, Jr.; Witte, John, Jr.	19	42
18	UC-Davis	Amar, Vikram D.; Bhagwat, Ashutosh; Chin, Gabriel (Jack); Horton, David; Joh, Elizabeth E.; Johnson, Kevin R.; Joslin, Courtney G.; Lee, Peter; Shanske, Darien; Ziegler, Mary	24	55
20	Fordham	*Brudney, James J.; Capers, Bennett; Davidson, Nestor M.; Green, Bruce A.; Griffith, Sean J.; Kent, Andrew; Leib, Ethan J.; Pearce, Russell G.; Pfaff, John F.; Squire, Richard; Teachout, Zephyr; Zipursky, Benjamin C.	32	33
20	Texas	Chesney, Robert M. (Bob); *Forbath, William E.; Golden, John M.; Grove, Tara; *Levinson, Sanford; *McGarity, Thomas O.; *Sager, Lawrence G.; Silver, Charles M.; Spence, David B.; Wagner, Wendy E.	16	16
22	UC-Irvine	Baradaran, Mehrsa; Barnes, Mario; Fleischer, Victor; Gold, Andrew; Jiménez, Dalié; Lee, Stephen; Leslie, Christopher; *MenkelMeadow, Carrie; Reese, R. Anthony; Richardson, L. Song; Waldman, Ari Ezra; Whytock, Christopher	24	42
23	Minnesota	Bodie, Matthew; *Carbone, June; Cotter, Thomas F.; Hickman, Kristin E.; Hill, Claire A.; McDonnell, Brett; McGeveran, William; Parisi, Francesco; Schwarcz, Daniel; Wurman, Ilan	19	16
23	St. Thomas-MN	Berg, Thomas C.; Grenardo, David; *Hamilton, Neil W.; Kaal, Wulf; Kelly, Daniel; Organ, Jerome M.; Osler, Mark; Paulsen, Michael S.; *Reid, Charles J., Jr.; Sisk, Gregory C.	126	98
23	William & Mary	Bellin, Jeffrey; Bruhl, Aaron; Criddle, Evan J.; Devins, Neal E.; Gershowitz, Adam; Hu, Margaret; Larsen, Allison Orr; Porter, Nicole Buonocore; Spencer, A. Benjamin; Zick, Timothy	27	36
26	USC	Barnett, Jonathan; Clarke, Jessica; Epstein, Lee; Gruber, Aya; Guzman, Andrew T.; Keating, Gregory; Klerman, Daniel M.; Rasmussen, Robert K.; Sokol, D. Daniel; Tolson, Franita	19	20
27	Boston University	Beermann, Jack M.; *Fleming, James E.; Hartzog, Woodrow; Hylton, Keith N.; McClain, Linda C.; Onwuachi-Willig, Angela; Shugerman, Jed; Van Loo, Rory; Webber, David H.; Meurer, Michael J.	19	24
28	Washington University	Boyd, Christina; Epps, Daniel; *Joy, Peter A.; Kim, Pauline T.; *Kuehn, Robert R.; *Levin, Benjamin; Levin, Ronald M.; Richards, Neil M.; *Seligman, Joel; Tamanaha, Brian Z.	18	16
29	Brooklyn	Araiza, William D.; Baer, Miriam H.; Bernstein, Anita; Godsoe, Cynthia; Janger, Edward J.; Kim, Catherine Y.; Ristroph, Alice; Roberts, Anna; *Schneider, Elizabeth M.; Simonson, Jocelyn	74	114
30	Florida	Bambauer, Derek; Bambauer, Jane; Lawson, Gary; Lidsky, Lyrissa Barnett; *LoPucki, Lynn M.; Maclin, Tracey; Noah, Lars; Rhee, Robert J.; Stinneford, John F.; *Wolf, Michael Allan	32	28
30	George Mason	Bernstein, David; Butler, Henry; Garoupa, Nuno; *Ginsburg, Douglas; Greve, Michael; Kleinfeld, Joshua; *Lund, Nelson; Mossoff, Adam; *Muris, Timothy; Somin, Ilya; Zywicki, Todd	64	28
30	North Carolina	Ardia, David; *Conley, John M.; Coyle, John F.; Gerhardt, Michael J.; *Hazen, Thomas L.; Hessick, Carissa Byrne; Hessick, F. Andrew; Jacoby, Melissa B.; Jain, Eisha; *Marshall, William P.; Su, Rick; Wilson, Erika	24	20
30	Utah	Anderson, Jonas; Anghie, Antony T.; Brown, Teneille Ruth; Cassell, Paul G.; Contreras, Jorge; *Francis, Leslie; Jones, RonNell Andersen; Peterson, Christopher L.; Tokson, Matthew; Warner, Elizabeth Kronk	44	28
34	Cardozo	Gilles, Myriam; Herz, Michael Eric; Levine, Kate; Markowitz, Peter; Reinert, Alexander A.; *Rosenfeld, Michel; Schneider, Andrea Kupfer; Sebok, Anthony; *Sterk, Stewart E.; *Zelinsky, Edward	51	61
34	Florida State	Bayern, Shawn J.; *Johnson, Steve R.; Landau, David E.; Logan, Wayne A.; Morley, Michael T.; O’Hara O’Connor, Erin A.; Ryan, Erin; *Seidenfeld, Mark B.; Slocum, Brian G.; Tsesis, Alexander	47	48
34	Ohio State	Akbar, Amna; Barnett, Kent; Berman, Douglas A.; Colker, Ruth; Foley, Edward B.; Garcia Hernández, César; Schmitz, Amy J.; Simmons, Ric L.; Strang, Lee; Yearby, Ruqaiijah A.	27	26
34	San Diego	*Alexander, Lawrence A.; Bell, Abraham; Dripps, Donald A.; Fox, Dov; *Hirsch, Adam; Lobel, Orly; McGowan, David; Ramsey, Michael D.; Rappaport, Michael B.; Schapiro, Robert; Sichelman, Ted; *Smith, Steven D.	51	68
38	Illinois	*Finkin, Matthew W.; Hurd, Heidi M.; Lawless, Robert M.; Mazzone, Jason; *Moore, Michael S.; Robbennolt, Jennifer K.; Sherkow, Jacob S.; Thomas, Suja A.; Wilson, Robin Fretwell	38	36
38	Notre Dame	Alford, Roger P.; Bellia, Anthony J., Jr.; Bray, Samuel; Garnett, Nicole S.; Garnett, Richard W.; Kozel, Randy; Miller, Paul; Muller, Derek T.; Pojanowski, Jeffrey; Tidmarsh, Jay	19	20
38	University of Arizona	Coan, Andrew; Engel, Kirsten H.; Miller, Marc L.; Orbach, Barak Y.; Puig, Sergio; Sepe, Simone M.; Tsosie, Rebecca; Williams, Robert A., Jr.; Woods, Andrew Keane; Woods, Jordan Blair	38	55
41	Colorado	Anaya, S. James; Carpenter, Kristen A.; Gulasekaram, Pratheepan; Kaminski, Margot; Krakoff, Sarah; Norton, Helen; Roithmayr, Daria; Schlag, Pierre; SkinnerThompson, Scott; Surden, Harry	38	48
42	BYU	Asay, Clark D.; Baradaran Baughman, Shima; *Fleming, J. Clifton, Jr.; Grow Sun, Lisa; Jennejohn, Matt; Jensen, Eric Talbot; Lee, Thomas R.; Plamondon, Stephanie Bair; Shobe, Jarrod; Smith, D. Gordon	51	28
43	Arizona State	Beydoun, Khaled; Bodansky, Daniel M.; Bublick, Ellen M.; Hodge, James G., Jr.; Luna, Erik; Marchant, Gary E.; Miller, Robert J.; *Saks, Michael J.; Selmi, Michael L.; *Weinstein, James	32	36
43	Case Western	Adler, Jonathan H.; Chaffee, Eric C.; Hill, B. Jessie; Hoffman, Sharona; Korsmo, Charles R.; Nard, Craig A.; Robertson, Cassandra Burke; Rose, Paul; Rosenblatt, Betsy; Scharf, Michael P.	64	89
43	Kansas	Bhala, Raj; Craig, Robin Kundis; Drahozal, Christopher R.; *Hoeflich, Michael H.; Jefferson-Jones, Jamila; Levy, Richard E.; Outka, Uma; Velte, Kyle; Ware, Stephen J.; Yung, Corey Rayburn	64	46
43	UC-San Francisco	Depoorter, Ben; Dodson, Scott; Faigman, David L.; Feldman, Robin; *Marcus, Richard; Ming H. Chen; Owen, Dave; Price, Zachary; Reiss, Dorit Rubinstein; Short, Jodi	64	82
47	Chicago-Kent	Baker, Katharine K.; Dinwoodie, Graeme B.; Heyman, Steven J.; Katz, Daniel; Kim, Nancy; Krent, Harold J.; Marder, Nancy S.; Reilly, Greg; Rosen, Mark D.; Schmidt, Christopher W.	90	108
47	Georgia	Bruner, Christopher M.; Burch, Elizabeth Chamblee; Cade, Jason A.; Chapman, Nathan S.; *Coenen, Dan T.; Foohey, Pamela; Levin, Hillel Y.; Rodrigues, Usha; Rutledge, Peter B.; *Wells, Michael L.; West, Sonja R.	27	20
47	San Francisco	Bazelon, Lara; Dibadj, Reza R.; Freiwald, Susan A.; Harris, Lindsay M.; *Hing, Bill Ong; Kalb, Johanna; Kaswan, Alice; Leo, Richard A.; Nice, Julie A.; *Rosenberg, Joshua D.	138	165
47	Temple	Burris, Scott C.; Dunoff, Jeffrey L.; Gugliuzza, Paul R.; Hollis, Duncan B.; Lin, Tom C.W.; Lipson, Jonathan; RamjiNogales, Jaya; Rebouche, Rachel; Spiro, Peter J.; Wells, Harwell	51	54
47	Washington & Lee	Drumbl, Mark A.; Fairfield, Joshua A.T.; Haan, Sarah; Hasbrouck, Brandon; Malveaux, Suzette; Miller, Russell A.; Seaman, Christopher B.; Smith, Catherine E.; Trammell, Alan; Woody, Karen	38	33

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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
• Career Rating

Today, in my concluding post, I blog the Princeton Review's overall law school rankings, giving equal weight (20%) to each of the Admissions Selectivity, Academic Experience, Professors: Teaching, Professors: Accessibility, and Career Rating rankings:

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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Career Rating

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
• Career Rating

Career Rating:  This rating measures the confidence students have in their school's ability to lead them to fruitful employment opportunities, as well as the school's own record of having done so. This rating takes into account both student survey responses and school-reported statistical data. We ask students about how much the law program encourages practical experience; the opportunities for externships, internships, and clerkships; and how prepared to practice law they expect to feel after graduating. We ask law schools for the median starting salaries of graduating students; the percentage employed in a job that requires bar passage (and not employed by the school); and the percentage of these students who pass the bar exam the first time they take it. This rating is on a scale of 60–99.

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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)

Update: 2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
• Career Rating

Here are the Top 50 law school professor rankings, giving equal weight (50%) to the Professors: Teaching and Professors: Accessibility rankings:

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U.S. News Replaces Ordinal Ranking Of Medical Schools With Tiers Due To Boycott. Are Law Schools Next?

Chronicle of Higher Education, ‘U.S. News’ Medical-School Rankings Are Out — Except They’re Not Really Rankings:

U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Medical Schools” lists were published on Tuesday, and, for the first time, the schools don’t have ordinal ranks. Instead, they’re organized into four tiers. Within each tier, the schools are listed in alphabetical order.

Although some rankings critics have touted tiers as a better alternative to ordinal ranks, U.S. News analysts don’t appear to agree, necessarily. Instead, it seems as if “Best Medical Schools: Research” and “Best Medical Schools: Primary Care” are tiered this year because too many schools didn’t supply the magazine’s analysts with the data they needed to create rankings. ...

Twenty percent of last year’s top-100 medical schools for research and primary care didn’t return U.S. News’s statistical survey this year [27% of law schools did not submit data to U.S. News]. Schools that didn’t fill out the survey are listed as unranked. Among them are some of the country’s best-known doctor-training programs, such as Harvard University’s, the Johns Hopkins University’s, and the University of Pennsylvania’s. ...

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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Accessibility)

Update: 2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
• Career Rating

Professors: Accessible:  This rating is based on how law students rate the accessibility of law faculty members at their school. The rating is on a scale of 60 to 99. 

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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Professors (Teaching)

Update: 2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

I previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review's Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

• Admissions Selectivity
• Academic Experience
• Professors: Teaching
• Professors: Accessibility
• Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
• Career Rating

Professors: Interesting:  This rating is based on how students rate the quality of teaching at their law school. This rating is on a scale of 60-99.

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