The new 2026-27 U.S. News Business/Corporate Law Rankings include the business/corporate law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 47% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Harvard |
| 2 | Columbia |
| 2 | NYU |
| 2 | Stanford |
| 5 | Penn |
| 6 | Chicago |
| 7 | UC-Berkeley |
| 7 | UCLA |
| 9 | Virginia |
| 9 | Yale |
| 11 | Duke |
| 11 | Michigan |
| 13 | Vanderbilt |
| 14 | Cornell |
| 14 | Georgetown |
| 14 | Northwestern |
| 17 | Fordham |
| 17 | Texas |
| 17 | USC |
| 20 | BYU |
| 21 | Boston University |
| 21 | UC-Davis |
| 23 | Georgia |
| 23 | Minnesota |
| 25 | Boston College |
| 25 | Emory |
| 25 | SMU |
| 25 | Washington University |
| 29 | Florida |
| 29 | George Washington |
| 29 | North Carolina |
| 29 | Washington & Lee |
| 29 | William & Mary |
| 34 | Illinois |
| 34 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 34 | Miami |
| 34 | Notre Dame |
| 34 | Ohio State |
| 34 | Tennessee |
| 34 | UC-Irvine |
| 41 | Arizona State |
| 41 | Colorado |
| 41 | Iowa |
| 41 | Tulane |
| 41 | UC Law SF |
| 41 | University of Arizona |
| 47 | Alabama |
| 47 | Brooklyn |
| 47 | George Mason |
| 47 | Maryland |
| 47 | Texas A&M |
| 47 | Wake Forest |
| 47 | Widener (DE) |
| 47 | Wisconsin |
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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