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2025-26 U.S. News Law School Rankings

Paul Caron
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U.S. News & World Report has announced that the new 2025-26 law school rankings will be publicly released on Tuesday, April 8th (law schools will receive an embargoed copy on Tuesday, March 25th):

US News (2023)Outcomes are critical when considering an advanced degree. That is why three brand new law school rankings that compare schools on different career outcomes for graduates will be unveiled with the overall rankings this year.

Because the rankings should be a starting point and not an end point in research, U.S. News offers the MyLaw Rankings quiz that enables users to create custom rankings based on preferences. The law school search function also enables users to find schools based on information that is not collected by the American Bar Association, such as average starting salary and graduate employment. This was further facilitated this year by 10 additional law schools compared to the prior year having reported data to U.S. News, mirrored by improved response rates in the qualitative assessments U.S. News sends to top law school officials and legal professionals.

Companion methodologies for all graduate-level disciplines will outline any changes in the formulas. While there will be limited changes in how some ranking factors were calculated, this edition features no completely new ranking factors in any multifactor rankings, nor changes in how those factors were weighted. …

As an additional procedural step in this year's rankings that used statistical survey data, schools were given a second opportunity to review their submitted surveys after being reminded of the survey questions and provided a draft rank using their initially supplied data. This step was done so schools could detect any reporting issues well in advance of publication.

Altogether, there will be updated annual comparisons of schools in law, education, engineering and medicine. Program-level rankings will be updated for part-time law, full-time and part-time MBAs, and graduate degrees in computer science, nursing, public affairs and public health. Finally, there will again be rankings of specialties in several of these disciplines. …

Law Schools

  • Overall

13 specialties: business/corporate; clinical; constitutional; contracts/commercial; criminal; dispute resolution; environmental; health care; intellectual property; international; legal writing; tax; trial advocacy

  • Part-time Programs
  • Career Outcomes

Derek Muller (Notre Dame), USNWR Promises Three New Employment Rankings For Law Schools in its 2025 Rankings Release

Here is my coverage of the current 2024-25 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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