The new 2026-27 U.S. News Health Care Law Rankings include the health care law programs at 191 law schools (the faculty survey had a 50% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | St. Louis |
| 2 | Boston University |
| 2 | Georgia State |
| 4 | Harvard |
| 4 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 6 | Georgetown |
| 6 | Maryland |
| 8 | Stanford |
| 9 | Houston |
| 9 | Northeastern |
| 9 | Yale |
| 12 | Case Western |
| 12 | Seton Hall |
| 12 | Temple |
| 12 | UCLA |
| 16 | American |
| 16 | Arizona State |
| 16 | UC Law SF |
| 19 | George Washington |
| 19 | Penn |
| 21 | Ohio State |
| 22 | Emory |
| 22 | Michigan |
| 24 | Drexel |
| 24 | Duke |
| 24 | Washington University |
| 27 | DePaul |
| 27 | Wake Forest |
| 29 | Indiana (McKinney) |
| 29 | Minnesota |
| 29 | Mitchell | Hamline |
| 29 | North Carolina |
| 29 | Texas |
| 29 | University of Washington |
| 35 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 35 | NYU |
| 35 | Pittsburgh |
| 35 | UC-Berkeley |
| 35 | University of Arizona |
| 35 | Utah |
| 35 | Virginia |
| 42 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 42 | Northwestern |
| 42 | Tennessee |
| 42 | Texas A&M |
| 42 | UC-Davis |
| 47 | Boston College |
| 47 | Columbia |
| 47 | Georgia |
| 47 | Vanderbilt |
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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