Law.com, The 2024 Top 50 Go-To Law Schools:

The Go-To Law Schools: Big Law report ranks the top 50 law schools by percentage of 2023 juris doctor graduates who took associate positions at the largest 100 firms as identified in The National Law Journal’s annual survey of the nation’s 500 largest law firms.

For the first time this year, data for this report was provided to Law.com by the law schools instead of from law firms as has been done in the past.

1. Northwestern
2. Columbia
3. Virginia
4. Penn
5. Cornell
6. Duke
7. Chicago
8. Vanderbilt
9. USC
10. Georgetown

11. NYU
12. UCLA
13. UC-Berkeley
14. Howard
15. Boston College
16. Washington University
17. Boston University
18. Fordham
19. Texas
20. UC-Irvine
21. SMU
22. Emory
23. Houston
24. Washington & Lee
25. George Washington
26. UC-San Francisco
27. Florida
28. William & Mary
29. UC-Davis
30. Miami
31. Wake Forest
32. Cardozo
33. North Carolina
34. Tulane
35. Iowa
36. Temple
37. Georgia
38. Brooklyn
39. BYU
40. Illinois
41. St. John's
42. Minnesota
43. Loyola-L.A.
44. Northeastern
45. Villanova
46. Alabama
47. Georgia State
48. Hofstra
49. Catholic
50. Wisconsin

• Law.com, The 2024 Top 50 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law
• Law.com, The 2024 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law—All Schools Data
• Law.com, The 2024 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law—Tuition
• Law.com, The 2024 Go-To Law Schools: Big Law—Law Firm Data
• Law.com, Longtime Go-To Law Schools Leader Dethroned in 2024 Rankings

Prior Years Law School Rankings By Graduates In BigLaw Jobs:

• 2023
• 2022
• 2021
• 2020
• 2018
• 2017
• 2016
• 2015
• 2014
• 2013
• 2012