The new 2026-27 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 52% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Georgetown |
| 3 | Florida |
| 3 | Northwestern |
| 5 | Virginia |
| 6 | Michigan |
| 7 | Columbia |
| 8 | Boston College |
| 8 | Harvard |
| 8 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 8 | UC-Irvine |
| 12 | Chicago |
| 12 | San Diego |
| 12 | Stanford |
| 12 | UCLA |
| 12 | Yale |
| 17 | Boston University |
| 17 | Duke |
| 17 | UC-Berkeley |
| 20 | Texas |
| 20 | UC Law SF |
| 20 | USC |
| 23 | North Carolina |
| 23 | Penn |
| 25 | George Washington |
| 25 | UC-Davis |
| 27 | Fordham |
| 27 | Miami |
| 27 | Minnesota |
| 27 | Washington University |
| 31 | Cornell |
| 31 | Houston |
| 31 | Pepperdine |
| 31 | Pittsburgh |
| 35 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 35 | Notre Dame |
| 37 | Alabama |
| 37 | Arizona State |
| 37 | BYU |
| 37 | Georgia |
| 37 | Temple |
| 37 | Villanova |
| 37 | Wisconsin |
| 44 | American |
| 44 | Brooklyn |
| 44 | Cardozo |
| 44 | Denver |
| 44 | Emory |
| 44 | Florida State |
| 44 | Illinois |
| 44 | Iowa |
| 44 | Texas A&M |
| 44 | Vanderbilt |
Among the law schools in the tax rankings last year, here are the biggest upward moves:
- 23: Texas A&M (#44)
- 18: Illinois (#44)
- 14: UC-Berkeley (#17)
- 13: Connecticut (#54)
- 10: Loyola-L.A. (#8), Houston (#31)
Here are the rankings of law schools with graduate tax programs:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Georgetown |
| 3 | Florida |
| 3 | Northwestern |
| 5 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 5 | UC-Irvine |
| 7 | San Diego |
| 8 | Boston University |
| 9 | Miami |
| 9 | Washington University |
| 11 | Houston |
| 12 | Alabama |
| 12 | Temple |
| 12 | Villanova |
| 15 | Denver |
| 15 | Emory |
| 17 | University of Washington |
| 18 | SMU |
| 19 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 19 | Wayne State |
| 21 | Baltimore |
| 21 | New York Law School |
| 23 | San Francisco |
| 24 | Chicago-Kent |
| 24 | Illinois-Chicago |
| 26 | Chapman |
| 26 | DePaul |
| 28 | Suffolk |
| 28 | Missouri-Kansas City |
| 30 | Capital |
2026-27 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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