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2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

Paul Caron
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Princeton ReviewI previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2024 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

Today, in my concluding post, I blog the Princeton Review’s overall law school rankings, giving equal weight (20%) to each of the Admissions Selectivity, Academic Experience, Professors: Teaching, Professors: Accessibility, and Career Rating rankings:

  Law School Selectivity Academics Teaching Accessibility Career Average
1 Virginia 99 99 98 99 99 98.8
2 Duke 98 97 98 98 99 98.0
  Stanford 99 98 98 97 98 98.0
4 Michigan 98 95 97 98 99 97.4
  UCLA 97 97 98 97 98 97.4
6 Chicago 97 96 99 97 97 97.2
7 Vanderbilt 97 96 98 98 96 97.0
8 Boston College 96 95 96 97 98 96.4
9 Northwestern 96 94 96 95 99 96.0
  Texas 98 94 96 95 97 96.0
11 Florida State 95 97 98 98 90 95.6
  Georgia 97 96 97 98 90 95.6
13 Columbia 98 94 95 93 97 95.4
  Cornell 96 93 96 94 98 95.4
  NYU 98 93 95 92 99 95.4
16 Georgetown 98 96 95 94 93 95.2
  UC-Berkeley 96 93 95 94 98 95.2
18 Harvard 99 95 94 89 98 95.0
  Notre Dame 93 95 98 98 91 95.0
20 Texas A&M 96 94 96 97 91 94.8
21 Penn 98 92 93 93 96 94.4
  Washington University 98 94 96 96 88 94.4
23 USC 98 92 92 93 96 94.2
24 Boston University 96 92 93 93 96 94.0
  Florida 97 93 94 94 92 94.0
  Fordham 96 92 93 94 95 94.0
  Minnesota 94 93 96 94 93 94.0
  UC-Davis 94 93 95 97 91 94.0
  UC-Irvine 96 92 94 94 94 94.0
30 Arizona State 96 94 95 95 88 93.6
  Pepperdine 94 92 95 97 90 93.6
32 Baylor 95 92 95 95 90 93.4
33 Washington & Lee 93 90 92 97 94 93.2
34 Utah 94 92 94 95 90 93.0
35 Alabama 94 93 95 96 86 92.8
36 Temple 90 91 95 95 92 92.6
  William & Mary 89 92 96 97 89 92.6
38 Florida Int’l 92 93 95 97 84 92.2
39 BYU 92 91 95 95 87 92.0
40 Regent 86 90 97 98 88 91.8
  Yale 99 90 90 87 93 91.8
42 Colorado 92 89 93 93 91 91.6
  Georgia State 89 90 96 94 89 91.6
  Iowa 89 90 95 96 88 91.6
45 Richmond 90 91 95 97 84 91.4
  SMU 87 90 95 96 89 91.4
  Wisconsin 92 90 93 93 89 91.4
48 Loyola-L.A. 89 92 96 96 82 91.0
  North Carolina 89 91 97 95 83 91.0
  Ohio State 90 90 94 95 86 91.0
51 Cleveland State 86 90 95 96 87 90.8
  George Washington 95 90 92 91 86 90.8
  Tennessee 89 90 93 96 86 90.8
  Wake Forest 85 89 95 97 88 90.8
55 San Diego 87 89 95 94 88 90.6
  University of Washington 92 88 92 93 88 90.6
57 Brooklyn 86 88 94 95 88 90.2
  Villanova 95 91 92 95 78 90.2
59 Cardozo 86 88 94 93 89 90.0
  Emory 94 88 90 90 88 90.0
  Oklahoma 86 86 93 95 90 90.0
  Seton Hall 87 88 93 94 88 90.0
  University of Arizona 88 89 91 97 85 90.0
64 Houston 91 86 90 91 91 89.8
  Indiana (Maurer) 86 89 95 93 86 89.8
  Maryland 89 87 92 93 88 89.8
  Ohio Northern 81 87 95 97 89 89.8
  Pittsburgh 86 88 93 95 87 89.8
  Tulsa 84 87 94 96 88 89.8
70 Case Western 84 88 95 95 86 89.6
  Connecticut 87 88 92 93 88 89.6
  Dayton 86 86 92 95 89 89.6
  Drexel 88 88 93 94 85 89.6
74 Louisiana State 80 87 96 97 87 89.4
  Samford 81 87 95 96 88 89.4
76 Charleston 80 87 97 98 84 89.2
  Hawaii 86 87 92 94 87 89.2
  Kansas 86 86 92 93 89 89.2
  Marquette 83 85 93 93 92 89.2
  Michigan State 83 89 94 97 83 89.2
  New Hampshire 82 87 93 96 88 89.2
  New Mexico 81 86 93 96 90 89.2
  Rutgers 83 88 95 95 85 89.2
84 Drake 81 86 94 94 90 89.0
  Memphis 83 88 94 96 84 89.0
86 Chicago-Kent 84 86 93 93 88 88.8
  Nebraska 81 85 94 94 90 88.8
  Northeastern 91 86 90 89 88 88.8
89 Denver 82 86 94 94 87 88.6
  South Carolina 83 85 93 94 88 88.6
  Texas Tech 87 86 91 94 85 88.6
  Washburn 80 86 94 96 87 88.6
  Wyoming 81 84 91 97 90 88.6
94 American 84 87 94 94 83 88.4
  George Mason 89 89 94 92 78 88.4
  Penn State-Dickinson 87 88 93 96 78 88.4
97 Chapman 81 87 94 95 84 88.2
  Loyola-Chicago 84 86 92 93 86 88.2
  Vermont 79 86 94 97 85 88.2
  Wayne State 82 86 93 94 86 88.2

2023 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: 

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Paul Caron
Paul Caron was named Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean of Pepperdine University School of Law on June 1, 2017. Dean Caron joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2013 after serving as the Dorothy and Leonard Straus Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law in the spring semesters of 2010 through 2013. He served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development at Pepperdine in 2015-2017. Before coming to Pepperdine, he was Associate Dean of Faculty and Charles Hartsock Professor of Law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.
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