The new 2026-27 U.S. News Intellectual Property Law Rankings include the intellectual property law programs at 194 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Stanford |
| 1 | UC-Berkeley |
| 3 | NYU |
| 4 | Santa Clara |
| 5 | George Washington |
| 6 | American |
| 7 | Columbia |
| 7 | Chicago-Kent |
| 7 | Houston |
| 7 | Cardozo |
| 11 | Boston University |
| 11 | Georgetown |
| 11 | Harvard |
| 11 | Texas A&M |
| 11 | Michigan |
| 11 | Penn |
| 11 | Texas |
| 18 | Duke |
| 18 | Fordham |
| 18 | UCLA |
| 18 | Virginia |
| 22 | Cornell |
| 22 | Northwestern |
| 22 | San Diego |
| 22 | Vanderbilt |
| 26 | George Mason |
| 27 | Boston College |
| 27 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 27 | Richmond |
| 27 | Utah |
| 31 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 31 | Minnesota |
| 31 | UNLV |
| 31 | New Hampshire |
| 31 | USC |
| 31 | Washington University |
| 31 | William & Mary |
| 38 | Emory |
| 38 | Northeastern |
| 38 | SMU |
| 38 | Chicago |
| 38 | Colorado |
| 38 | Illinois |
| 38 | Yale |
| 45 | DePaul |
| 45 | UC-Irvine |
| 47 | Arizona State |
| 47 | Ohio State |
| 47 | Suffolk |
| 47 | Temple |
| 47 | Tulane |
| 47 | Akron |
| 47 | UC-Davis |
| 47 | Denver |
| 47 | Iowa |
| 47 | North Carolina |
| 47 | Pittsburgh |
| 47 | University of Washington |
| 47 | Wisconsin |
| 47 | Villanova |
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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