The new 2026-27 U.S. News Constitutional Law Rankings include the constitutional law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Yale |
| 2 | Chicago |
| 2 | Harvard |
| 2 | Stanford |
| 5 | Columbia |
| 5 | Michigan |
| 5 | NYU |
| 8 | Georgetown |
| 8 | UC-Berkeley |
| 8 | Virginia |
| 11 | Penn |
| 12 | Cornell |
| 13 | Duke |
| 13 | UCLA |
| 15 | Northwestern |
| 15 | Texas |
| 17 | William & Mary |
| 18 | Vanderbilt |
| 19 | Boston University |
| 19 | Minnesota |
| 19 | Notre Dame |
| 19 | UC-Davis |
| 19 | Washington University |
| 24 | North Carolina |
| 24 | Wisconsin |
| 26 | Boston College |
| 26 | Emory |
| 26 | Fordham |
| 26 | George Washington |
| 26 | UC-Irvine |
| 26 | USC |
| 32 | Ohio State |
| 32 | San Diego |
| 34 | Alabama |
| 34 | Florida |
| 34 | Georgia |
| 34 | Washington & Lee |
| 38 | Arizona State |
| 38 | Illinois |
| 40 | Colorado |
| 40 | Florida State |
| 40 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 40 | Maryland |
| 40 | Texas A&M |
| 40 | University of Arizona |
| 40 | Utah |
| 47 | Brooklyn |
| 47 | BYU |
| 47 | Cardozo |
| 47 | Iowa |
| 47 | Pepperdine |
| 47 | UC Law SF |
| 47 | Wake Forest |
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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