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2025 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Overall Ranking

Princeton ReviewI previously blogged the lists of the Top 5 law schools in fourteen categories in the 2025 edition of the Princeton Review’s Best Law Schools. In a series of posts, I will highlight the Top 50 schools in the five categories for which the Princeton Review provides individual law school data:

Today, in my concluding post, I blog the Princeton Review’s overall law school rankings, giving equal weight (20%) to each of the Admissions Selectivity, Academic Experience, Professors: Teaching, Professors: Accessibility, and Career Rating rankings:

Law School Selectivity Academics Teaching Accessibility Career Average
1 Virginia 98 99 98 99 99 98.6
2 Chicago 98 99 99 97 99 98.4
3 Stanford 99 99 98 97 98 98.2
4 Duke 96 98 98 98 99 97.8
Michigan 98 97 97 98 99 97.8
6 UCLA 97 98 98 97 98 97.6
7 Vanderbilt 95 97 98 98 97 97.0
8 Boston College 95 97 96 97 98 96.6
Northwestern 98 96 96 95 98 96.6
10 Columbia 99 95 95 93 99 96.2
11 Texas 98 95 96 95 96 96.0
12 Cornell 97 94 96 94 98 95.8
Notre Dame 95 96 98 98 92 95.8
14 Florida State 95 97 98 98 90 95.6
15 Georgia 96 98 97 98 88 95.4
NYU 98 94 95 92 98 95.4
Penn 99 93 93 93 99 95.4
UC-Berkeley 96 94 95 94 98 95.4
19 Harvard 99 94 94 89 98 94.8
20 Washington University 98 97 96 96 86 94.6
21 Georgetown 96 96 95 94 91 94.4
Texas A&M 96 91 96 97 92 94.4
23 USC 97 91 92 93 98 94.2
24 Boston University 95 93 93 93 94 93.6
Florida 96 93 94 94 91 93.6
Fordham 94 92 93 94 95 93.6
Minnesota 94 93 96 94 91 93.6
UC-Davis 91 92 95 97 93 93.6
UC-Irvine 95 92 94 94 93 93.6
30 Alabama 93 93 95 96 90 93.4
31 Baylor 92 92 95 95 92 93.2
Loyola-L.A. 92 94 96 96 88 93.2
Pepperdine 93 92 95 97 89 93.2
SMU 93 93 95 96 89 93.2
William & Mary 92 94 96 97 87 93.2
36 BYU 95 93 95 95 87 93.0
Wake Forest 94 93 95 97 86 93.0
Washington & Lee 93 90 92 97 93 93.0
39 Arizona State 94 93 95 95 86 92.6
Temple 91 92 95 95 90 92.6
41 North Carolina 95 94 97 95 81 92.4
Utah 94 92 94 95 87 92.4
43 Florida Int’l 92 90 95 97 86 92.0
Regent 86 91 97 98 88 92.0
Tennessee 93 92 93 96 86 92.0
Ohio State 93 92 94 95 85 91.8
47 George Mason 96 92 94 92 84 91.6
48 Cardozo 91 91 94 93 88 91.4
Colorado 91 90 93 93 90 91.4
50 Chapman 92 93 94 95 82 91.2
Richmond 90 91 95 97 83 91.2
Yale 99 90 90 87 90 91.2
53 Georgia State 88 90 96 94 87 91.0
Wayne State 92 91 93 94 85 91.0
Wisconsin 93 91 93 93 85 91.0
56 Case Western 88 91 95 95 85 90.8
57 Indiana (Maurer) 91 91 95 93 84 90.8
Villanova 93 91 92 95 83 90.8
59 Connecticut 91 91 92 93 86 90.6
Oklahoma 88 88 93 95 89 90.6
South Carolina 91 89 93 94 86 90.6
St. John’s 91 91 93 94 84 90.6
63 Miami 92 88 92 92 88 90.4
64 Michigan State 89 92 94 97 80 90.4
University of Arizona 92 91 91 97 81 90.4
66 Iowa 85 88 95 96 87 90.2
San Diego 89 88 95 94 85 90.2
68 George Washington 94 90 92 91 83 90.0
Kansas 89 87 92 93 89 90.0
Maryland 92 89 92 93 84 90.0
Seton Hall 87 88 93 94 88 90.0
72 Cleveland State 84 89 95 96 85 89.8
Ohio Northern 86 90 95 97 81 89.8
Penn State-Dickinson 88 89 93 96 83 89.8
75 Drexel 87 88 93 94 86 89.6
Houston 91 87 90 91 89 89.6
Louisiana State 83 89 96 97 83 89.6
78 Cincinnati 86 88 94 96 83 89.4
Emory 91 88 90 90 88 89.4
University of Washington 89 87 92 93 86 89.4
81 Brooklyn 83 88 94 95 86 89.2
Texas Tech 88 87 91 94 86 89.2
83 American 87 89 94 94 81 89.0
Charleston 79 87 97 98 84 89.0
Rutgers 86 89 95 95 80 89.0
86 Loyola-Chicago 86 87 92 93 86 88.8
Mississippi 84 89 95 96 80 88.8
Nebraska 81 86 94 94 89 88.8
New Mexico 82 87 93 96 86 88.8
90 Arkansas-Fayetteville 88 89 94 96 76 88.6
Duquesne 81 85 92 97 88 88.6
Hawaii 86 88 92 94 83 88.6
Marquette 87 87 93 93 83 88.6
Pittsburgh 83 87 93 95 85 88.6
South Texas 83 88 94 93 85 88.6
Stetson 86 89 93 95 80 88.6
Tulsa 82 86 94 96 85 88.6
98 Chicago-Kent 85 87 93 93 84 88.4
Denver 83 87 94 94 84 88.4
Northeastern 91 86 90 89 86 88.4
Samford 79 88 95 96 84 88.4

2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:

2023 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:

2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:

2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:

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