Duke University’s Law School ticked up three spots to take top billing in the 2022 Above the Law Top 50 Law Schools. The ranking, which relies solely upon graduate outcome data including legal employment (quality and quantity), educational cost, and student debt (see full methodology here), may be of particular interest to prospective law students interested in pursuing law firm employment.
Duke Law is followed by the University of Virginia, Cornell, University of Chicago, and Vanderbilt, which jumped ten places from 2021 to enter this year’s top five. University of Michigan Law dropped out of the top five in 2022. Yale, Harvard, and Stanford all dropped from the top ten in 2022 due to lower scores in the employment categories.
