Princeton Review Releases Category-Based Law School Rankings

The Princeton Review just released its rankings of law schools. Amidst the broader discourse on law school rankings as a result of the U.S. News ranking boycott, The Princeton Review’s methodology offers something different. Their rankings do not show all schools for a “best of” view, as they believe each of the 168 schools included provide an excellent academic experience. Rather, the categories and lists are designed to provide prospective students with insights and data (gathered from 17,000 student experience surveys from the enrollees of the 168 law schools over the past three years, as well as a 2021-2022 law school administrator survey) on various aspects of the program’s experience.  

You can access the top 10 lists for each of the 14 topic areas here. Below, we highlight three of the Princeton Review’s law school rankings. 

Best Classroom Experience: (student response data only)

  1. Stanford University School of Law

  2. Duke University School of La

  3. University of Chicago Law School

  4. University of Virginia School of Law

  5. University of Michigan Law School

  6. Georgetown University Law Center

  7. UCLA School of Law

  8. Boston University School of Law

  9. Vanderbilt University Law School

  10. University of Notre Dame Law School

Best Quality of Life: (student response data only)

  1. University of Virginia School of Law

  2. Florida State University College of Law

  3. Vanderbilt University Law School

  4. UCLA School of Law

  5. University of Pennsylvania Law School

  6. Samford University, Cumberland School of Law

  7. Duke University School of Law

  8. Stanford University School of Law

  9. Boston College Law School

  10. UC Davis School of Law

Best Career Prospects: (combination of administrator surveys/school reported data and student response data)New York University School of Law

  1. University of Virginia School of Law

  2. University of Michigan Law School

  3. Stanford University School of Law

  4. Duke University School of Law

  5. University of Southern California Law School

  6. UC Berkeley, Berkeley Law

  7. Northwestern University, Pritzker School of Law

  8. Harvard Law School

  9. Columbia University School of Law