The new 2025-26 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings include the contracts/commercial law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 36% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Chicago |
| 1 | Harvard |
| 1 | Stanford |
| 4 | Columbia |
| 4 | Yale |
| 6 | Michigan |
| 6 | NYU |
| 6 | Penn |
| 6 | UC-Berkeley |
| 6 | Virginia |
| 11 | Georgetown |
| 11 | UCLA |
| 13 | Cornell |
| 13 | Northwestern |
| 13 | Texas |
| 13 | Vanderbilt |
| 17 | Duke |
| 18 | Washington Univ. |
| 19 | Florida |
| 19 | Iowa |
| 19 | Minnesota |
| 19 | North Carolina |
| 23 | Emory |
| 23 | Fordham |
| 23 | USC |
| 26 | Boston University |
| 26 | Georgia |
| 26 | UC-Irvine |
| 26 | William & Mary |
| 30 | Florida State |
| 30 | George Mason |
| 30 | Illinois |
| 30 | Notre Dame |
| 30 | Ohio State |
| 35 | Alabama |
| 35 | Boston College |
| 35 | Cardozo |
| 35 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 35 | Tulane |
| 35 | UC-Davis |
| 35 | University of Washington |
| 35 | Washington & Lee |
| 35 | Wisconsin |
| 44 | Arizona State |
| 44 | Colorado |
| 44 | George Washington |
| 44 | Kansas |
| 44 | Temple |
| 44 | Tennessee |
| 44 | Texas A&M |
| 44 | University of Arizona |
| 44 | Wake Forest |
2024-25 U.S. News Contracts/Commercial Law Rankings
2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
- Business/Corporate Law
- Clinical Law
- Constitutional Law
- Contracts/Commercial Law
- Criminal Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Intellectual Property Law
- International Law
- Legal Writing
- Trial Advocacy
- Tax Law
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