2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

Following up on yesterday’s post, 2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings:

Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking:

	School	Specialty Rank	Overall Rank	Difference
1	American	24	104	+80
2	Santa Clara	85	156	+71
3	Pacific	94	163	+69
4	Illinois-Chicago	104	169	+65
5	Howard	63	127	+64
6	Brooklyn	56	117	+61
6	Case Western	46	107	+61
8	Suffolk	70	127	+57
9	Rutgers	51	104	+53
10	Denver	37	88	+51
11	CUNY	107	156	+49
12	Miami	44	92	+48
12	Pace	93	141	+48
12	UC Law – SF*	40	88	+48
15	Baltimore	92	139	+47
16	San Francisco*	120	166	+46
16	Seattle	81	127	+46
18	DePaul	95	133	+38
18	Hofstra	87	125	+38
20	Mitchell \| Hamline	117	154	+37
21	Widener (DE)	134	169	+35
22	Maryland	30	63	+33
23	Loyola-New Orleans	102	134	+32
23	Michigan State	83	115	+32
23	Nova	147	179	+32
23	Widener (PA)	143	175	+32
27	Cal-Western*	150	179	+29
28	Vermont	135	163	+28
29	Houston	36	63	+27
29	Loyola-Chicago	52	79	+27
31	Temple	24	50	+26
31	UNLV	53	79	+26
33	UC-Irvine*	14	38	+24
34	Arizona State	22	45	+23
34	Chicago-Kent	84	107	+23
34	Fordham	15	38	+23
34	Oregon	71	94	+23
38	Lewis & Clark	77	99	+22
38	Quinnipiac*	119	141	+22
38	Tulane*	49	71	+22
38	Willamette	128	150	+22
42	George Washington	11	31	+20
42	Louisville	126	146	+20
42	Syracuse	87	107	+20
45	UC-Davis	31	50	+19
46	Georgia State	61	79	+18
46	Southern*	157	175	+18
48	Gonzaga*	124	141	+17
48	Southern Illinois	158	175	+17
48	St. Mary’s	131	148	+17
48	Stetson	82	99	+17

Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most trails their overall U.S. News Ranking:

	School	Specialty Rank	Overall Rank	Difference
1	Regent	185	94	-91
2	Belmont	167	84	-83
3	George Mason	91	31	-60
4	Kentucky	125	68	-57
5	Baylor	96	43	-53
5	Penn State-Univ. Park*	121	68	-53
7	Dayton	159	107	-52
7	Maine	140	88	-52
7	Montana	151	99	-52
7	Penn State-Dickinson*	111	59	-52
11	Nebraska	118	71	-47
12	Duquesne	138	92	-46
12	Liberty	187	141	-46
14	BYU	73	28	-45
14	Samford	152	107	-45
16	Cincinnati	114	71	-43
17	Campbell*	176	134	-42
17	Catholic	113	71	-42
17	Chapman	146	104	-42
17	South Dakota	169	127	-42
21	Marquette	100	59	-41
22	Connecticut	90	50	-40
22	Missouri-Columbia	97	57	-40
24	Ave Maria	192	153	-39
24	Drake	123	84	-39
24	Oklahoma	98	59	-39
27	Alabama	68	31	-37
28	Utah	64	31	-33
29	Northern Kentucky	165	134	-31
30	Mercer	137	107	-30
30	Washington & Lee	66	36	-30
32	Notre Dame	48	20	-28
32	Texas Tech	116	88	-28
34	Florida Int’l	111	84	-27
34	St. Thomas (MN)	121	94	-27
34	West Virginia	144	117	-27
37	Tulsa	153	127	-26
38	Lincoln Memorial	194	169	-25
39	Chicago	27	3	-24
39	Louisiana State	108	84	-24
39	SMU	67	43	-24
42	New Hampshire*	148	125	-23
42	Oklahoma City	181	158	-23
44	Iowa	58	36	-22
44	Kansas	72	50	-22
46	Florida State	59	38	-21
46	Mississippi	142	121	-21
46	Mississippi College	179	158	-21
46	North Texas	184	163	-21
46	Northern Illinois	171	150	-21

*Denotes schools that did not submit statistical information to U.S. News. From the U.S News methodology: “schools that declined to provide statistical information to U.S. News had their academic peer ratings programmatically discarded before any computations were made. Nonresponders were still scored using the full complement of eligible ratings submitted by peer schools, but any ratings they made of other schools were omitted.” For the complete list of boycotting schools for the past three years, see Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings.

2024-25 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

2025-26 U.S. News Specialty Rankings: