The new 2023 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 187 law schools (the faculty survey had a 51% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | Score | School |
| 1 | 4.6 | NYU |
| 2 | 4.4 | UC-Berkeley |
| 3 | 4.3 | Georgetown |
| 3 | 4.3 | Harvard |
| 3 | 4.3 | Penn |
| 3 | 4.3 | Stanford |
| 7 | 4.2 | Virginia |
| 8 | 4.1 | Chicago |
| 8 | 4.1 | Columbia |
| 8 | 4.1 | UCLA |
| 8 | 4.1 | Yale |
| 12 | 4.0 | Michigan |
| 12 | 4.0 | Ohio State |
| 14 | 3.9 | Duke |
| 14 | 3.9 | Texas |
| 14 | 3.9 | Vanderbilt |
| 17 | 3.8 | Northwestern |
| 18 | 3.7 | Fordham |
| 18 | 3.7 | North Carolina |
| 18 | 3.7 | William & Mary |
| 21 | 3.6 | Cornell |
| 21 | 3.6 | Minnesota |
| 21 | 3.6 | UC-Davis |
| 24 | 3.5 | American |
| 24 | 3.5 | Brooklyn |
| 24 | 3.5 | UC-Irvine |
| 24 | 3.5 | Wake Forest |
| 28 | 3.4 | Arizona State |
| 28 | 3.4 | Boston Univ. |
| 28 | 3.4 | Cardozo |
| 28 | 3.4 | George Washington |
| 32 | 3.3 | Colorado |
| 32 | 3.3 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 32 | 3.3 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 32 | 3.3 | UC-Hastings |
| 32 | 3.3 | Univ. of Washington |
| 32 | 3.3 | Washington Univ. |
| 32 | 3.3 | Wisconsin |
| 39 | 3.2 | Emory |
| 39 | 3.2 | Illinois |
| 39 | 3.2 | Iowa |
| 39 | 3.2 | Maryland |
| 39 | 3.2 | Rutgers |
| 39 | 3.2 | Utah |
| 39 | 3.2 | Washington & Lee |
| 46 | 3.1 | Boston College |
| 46 | 3.1 | Denver |
| 46 | 3.1 | Florida |
| 46 | 3.1 | Florida State |
| 46 | 3.1 | Notre Dame |
| 46 | 3.1 | Tulane |
| 46 | 3.1 | USC |
2022 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings
2023 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings (compilation of all 13 special rankings)
- Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Tax Law
- Trial Advocacy
