I 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:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors (Teaching)
- Professors (Accessibility)
- Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
- Career Rating
Career Rating: This rating measures the confidence students have in their school’s ability to lead them to fruitful employment opportunities, as well as the school’s own record of having done so. This rating takes into account both student survey responses and school-reported statistical data. We ask students about how much the law program encourages practical experience; the opportunities for externships, internships, and clerkships; and how prepared to practice law they expect to feel after graduating. We ask law schools for the median starting salaries of graduating students; the percentage employed in a job that requires bar passage (and not employed by the school); and the percentage of these students who pass the bar exam the first time they take it. This rating is on a scale of 60–99.
| Law School | Career Rating | |
| 1 | Chicago | 99 |
| Columbia | 99 | |
| Duke | 99 | |
| Michigan | 99 | |
| Penn | 99 | |
| Virginia | 99 | |
| 7 | Boston College | 98 |
| Cornell | 98 | |
| Harvard | 98 | |
| Northwestern | 98 | |
| NYU | 98 | |
| Stanford | 98 | |
| UC-Berkeley | 98 | |
| UCLA | 98 | |
| USC | 98 | |
| 16 | Vanderbilt | 97 |
| 17 | Texas | 96 |
| 18 | Boston University | 94 |
| UC-Davis | 93 | |
| UC-Irvine | 93 | |
| Washington & Lee | 93 | |
| Baylor | 92 | |
| Notre Dame | 92 | |
| Texas A&M | 92 | |
| 25 | Florida | 91 |
| Georgetown | 91 | |
| Minnesota | 91 | |
| 28 | Alabama | 90 |
| Colorado | 90 | |
| Florida State | 90 | |
| Temple | 90 | |
| Yale | 90 | |
| 33 | Houston | 89 |
| Kansas | 89 | |
| Nebraska | 89 | |
| Oklahoma | 89 | |
| Pepperdine | 89 | |
| SMU | 89 | |
| 39 | Cardozo | 88 |
| Duquesne | 88 | |
| Emory | 88 | |
| Georgia | 88 | |
| Loyola-L.A. | 88 | |
| Miami | 88 | |
| Regent | 88 | |
| Seton Hall | 88 | |
| 47 | BYU | 87 |
| Georgia State | 87 | |
| Iowa | 87 | |
| Missouri-Kansas City | 87 | |
| Utah | 87 | |
| William & Mary | 87 |
2024 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors: Teaching
- Professors: Accessibility
- Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
- Career Rating
- Overall Ranking
2023 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors: Teaching
- Professors: Accessibility
- Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
- Career Rating
- Overall Ranking
2022 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors: Teaching
- Professors: Accessibility
- Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
- Career Rating
- Overall Ranking
2021 Princeton Review Law School Rankings:
- Admissions Selectivity
- Academic Experience
- Professors: Teaching
- Professors: Accessibility
- Professors (Teaching And Accessibility)
- Career Rating
- Overall Ranking
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