The new 2025-26 U.S. News Dispute Resolution Rankings include the dispute resolution programs at 149 law schools (the faculty survey had a 43% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Ohio State |
| 2 | Pepperdine |
| 3 | Harvard |
| 3 | Texas A&M |
| 5 | Cardozo |
| 5 | Missouri-Columbia |
| 7 | Northwestern |
| 8 | Mitchell | Hamline |
| 9 | Arizona State |
| 9 | Maryland |
| 9 | UNLV |
| 12 | Fordham |
| 12 | Oregon |
| 14 | Florida |
| 14 | Quinnipiac |
| 14 | Stanford |
| 14 | UC Law – SF |
| 18 | Georgetown |
| 18 | Pace |
| 18 | Pacific |
| 18 | Stetson |
| 18 | Suffolk |
| 23 | Columbia |
| 23 | Houston |
| 23 | South Texas |
| 23 | UC-Davis |
| 27 | Michigan |
| 27 | UC-Irvine |
| 29 | Baylor |
| 29 | Kansas |
| 29 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 29 | Miami |
| 29 | UCLA |
| 29 | Washington Univ. |
| 35 | American |
| 35 | Creighton |
| 35 | Denver |
| 35 | Emory |
| 35 | Howard |
| 35 | Illinois |
| 35 | Nebraska |
| 35 | NYU |
| 35 | St. Mary’s |
| 35 | Temple |
| 35 | Texas |
| 35 | Vanderbilt |
| 35 | William & Mary |
| 48 | Arkansas-Little Rock |
| 48 | Boston College |
| 48 | Cornell |
| 48 | George Washington |
| 48 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 48 | Marquette |
| 48 | North Carolina |
| 48 | Penn |
| 48 | UC-Berkeley |
| 48 | USC |
| 48 | Wake Forest |
2024-25 U.S. News Dispute Resolution 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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