QS just released its 2023 Law & Legal Studies rankings. For the second year in a row U.S.-based programs took seven of the top ten spots in the global rankings. There was no movement between 2022 and 2023 within the top ten.
Harvard with a near perfect score, 99.8, continued its reign at the top, followed by Oxford (98) and Cambridge (97.1). The score is calculated using the following factors: Academic reputation (50 percent), Employer reputation (30 percent), Research citations per paper (5 percent), and the H-index (15 percent), which is a metric that measures the productivity and impact of an academic department.
2023 Rank School Total Score
1 Harvard University 99.8
2 University of Oxford 98
3 University of Cambridge 97.1
4 Yale University 93.8
5 Stanford University 93.4
6 New York University 91.6
7 London School of Economics 89.9
8 Columbia University 89.7
9 University of California, Berkeley 88.9
10 University of Chicago 87.9
Outside of the top 10, a number of elite U.S. programs ranked within the top 50. They include: Georgetown University (ranked 21), UCLA (22), University of Pennsylvania (27), Duke University (29), and Cornell University and University of Michigan (tied at 34). University of Virginia fell out of the top 50 this year, to the 51st rank.