The new 2026-27 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 53% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 1 | Stanford |
| 3 | Harvard |
| 3 | UC-Berkeley |
| 5 | Michigan |
| 5 | Virginia |
| 7 | Penn |
| 7 | Vanderbilt |
| 9 | Chicago |
| 9 | Columbia |
| 9 | Duke |
| 9 | Georgetown |
| 9 | UCLA |
| 9 | Yale |
| 15 | Northwestern |
| 15 | Ohio State |
| 17 | North Carolina |
| 18 | Wake Forest |
| 18 | Washington University |
| 20 | Brooklyn |
| 20 | Cornell |
| 20 | Fordham |
| 20 | George Washington |
| 20 | Minnesota |
| 20 | Texas |
| 20 | UC-Davis |
| 20 | William & Mary |
| 28 | Arizona State |
| 28 | Boston University |
| 28 | UC-Irvine |
| 31 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 31 | Maryland |
| 31 | USC |
| 31 | Utah |
| 35 | American |
| 35 | Boston College |
| 35 | Georgia |
| 35 | Illinois |
| 35 | Iowa |
| 35 | Tulane |
| 35 | UC Law SF |
| 35 | University of Arizona |
| 35 | Washington & Lee |
| 35 | Wisconsin |
| 45 | Cardozo |
| 45 | Denver |
| 45 | Emory |
| 45 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 45 | Richmond |
| 45 | Temple |
| 45 | University of Washington |
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
- Tax Law
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