The U.S. News and World Report has posted the 2024-2025 Best Law School rankings. For the second year in a row, Stanford and Yale Law Schools are tied for the top spot followed by University of Chicago in the third rank.
Notable changes to the T14 from the last year’s rankings include:
A four-way tie for the fourth rank. Duke, Harvard, and UVA joined UPenn in the fourth position this year. Duke and Harvard moved up one spot from a tie at 5th in 2023. UVA made the largest year-over-year gain in the T14, jumping up four places from last year.
NYU experienced the largest drop within the T14, moving down four spots to join Northwestern and Michigan in a three-way tie at 9th.
Georgetown moved up one rank to officially join the T14 in a tie at 14th with Cornell.
Outside of the T14, highlights include:
Washington University of St. Louis jumped up four spots to tie for the 16th rank with University of Minnesota and University of Texas-Austin.
Notre Dame became one of the year’s big winners with a seven spot improvement from 2023, joining the University of Southern California in a tie for 20th.
Boston University rejoined the top 25 this year, moving from the 27th rank in 2023 to 24th.
Brigham Young, Ohio State, and the University of Florida dropped out of the top 25 this year, after being a part of a five-way tie at 22nd last year. Ohio State fell four positions to rank 26th in a tie with Texas A&M. Brigham Young and Florida both fell six positions to tie for the 28th rank alongside Boston College, George Mason, and the University of Utah.
Slight adjustments were made to the methodology this year. A description is available here.
Rank School Name, Change from 2023
1 Stanford University (tie), –
1 Yale University (tie), –
3 University of Chicago, –
4 Duke University (tie), +1
4 Harvard University (tie), +1
4 University of Pennsylvania (tie), –
4 University of Virginia (tie), +4
8 Columbia University, –
9 New York University (tie), -4
9 Northwestern University (tie), +1
9 University of Michigan (tie), +1
12 University of California–Berkeley, -2
13 University of California–Los Angeles, +1
14 Cornell University (tie), -1
14 Georgetown University (tie), +1
16 University of Minnesota (tie), –
16 University of Texas–Austin (tie), –
16 Washington University in St. Louis (tie), +4
19 Vanderbilt University, -3
20 University of Georgia (tie), –
20 University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill (tie), +2
20 University of Notre Dame (tie), +7
20 University of Southern California (tie), -4
24 Boston University, +3
25 Wake Forest University, -3