The new 2025-26 U.S. News Environmental Law Rankings include the environmental law programs at 189 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Pace |
| 2 | Lewis & Clark |
| 2 | UC-Berkeley |
| 4 | Vermont |
| 5 | Columbia |
| 6 | UCLA |
| 7 | Colorado |
| 7 | Harvard |
| 7 | NYU |
| 7 | Oregon |
| 7 | Utah |
| 12 | Stanford |
| 12 | Vanderbilt |
| 14 | Duke |
| 14 | Georgetown |
| 16 | Arizona State |
| 16 | UC-Davis |
| 18 | Florida State |
| 18 | George Washington |
| 18 | Michigan |
| 21 | Denver |
| 21 | Maryland |
| 21 | UC Law – SF |
| 21 | Yale |
| 25 | Kansas |
| 25 | Penn |
| 25 | Texas A&M |
| 25 | Tulane |
| 25 | Virginia |
| 30 | Case Western |
| 30 | Florida |
| 30 | Minnesota |
| 30 | New Mexico |
| 30 | UC-Irvine |
| 30 | University of Arizona |
| 36 | Hawaii |
| 36 | Houston |
| 38 | Emory |
| 38 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 38 | Miami |
| 38 | Texas |
| 38 | University of Washington |
| 38 | Wisconsin |
| 44 | Northwestern |
| 44 | Ohio State |
| 46 | Cornell |
| 46 | Maine |
| 46 | Montana |
| 46 | Wyoming |
| 50 | Boston College |
| 50 | Georgia |
| 50 | Iowa |
| 50 | North Carolina |
| 50 | Notre Dame |
| 50 | San Diego |
2024-25 U.S. News Environmental 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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