2026-27 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

Following up on yesterday’s post, 2026-27 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings: Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most exceeds their overall U.S. News Ranking:

	School	Specialty Rank	Overall Rank	Difference
1	American	33	108	+75
2	Santa Clara	77	150	+73
3	Illinois-Chicago	108	167	+59
4	Suffolk	71	128	+57
5	UC Law SF*	29	85	+56
6	Denver	36	91	+55
7	Pacific	98	152	+54
8	Mitchell \| Hamline	100	152	+52
9	Baltimore	85	136	+51
10	Rutgers	51	100	+49
10	Seattle	79	128	+49
12	CUNY	123	171	+48
13	Brooklyn	58	105	+47
13	Howard	70	117	+47
13	Pace	95	142	+47
16	Case Western	57	100	+43
17	UNLV	49	91	+42
18	Nova	135	176	+41
19	Lewis & Clark	72	112	+40
19	Willamette	128	168	+40
21	San Francisco	117	156	+39
22	Maryland	24	62	+38
23	DePaul	96	131	+35
24	Cal-Western	142	176	+34
25	Southwestern*	128	161	+33
26	Widener (PA)	144	176	+32
27	Chicago-Kent	75	105	+30
27	Fordham	12	42	+30
27	Indiana (McKinney)	94	124	+30
27	Tulane*	40	70	+30
27	Vermont	124	154	+30
32	Hofstra	88	117	+29
32	Miami	41	70	+29
32	UC-Davis	23	52	+29
35	Widener (DE)	127	154	+27
36	Houston	28	54	+26
36	Oregon	65	91	+26
36	University of Arizona	44	70	+26
39	Loyola-L.A.	46	70	+24
39	Loyola-New Orleans	111	135	+24
39	Michigan State	84	108	+24
42	Loyola-Chicago	54	77	+23
43	Roger Williams*	151	171	+20
44	Arizona State	26	44	+18
44	Gonzaga	126	144	+18
46	George Washington	9	26	+17
46	Georgetown*	1	18	+17
48	New Mexico	101	117	+16
48	Quinnipiac*	120	136	+16
50	District of Columbia	161	176	+15
50	UC-Irvine*	19	34	+15

Here are the law schools whose U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Ranking most trails their overall U.S. News Ranking:

	School	Specialty Rank	Overall Rank	Difference
1	Regent	184	91	-93
2	Belmont	164	85	-79
3	Baylor	104	34	-70
4	Montana	156	90	-66
5	George Mason	97	32	-65
6	Nebraska	120	62	-58
7	BYU	77	24	-53
8	Dayton	163	112	-51
9	Duquesne	134	85	-49
9	Maine	140	91	-49
11	Marquette	107	59	-48
11	Oklahoma	110	62	-48
13	Florida Int’l	124	77	-47
13	South Dakota	169	122	-47
15	Missouri-Columbia	105	59	-46
16	Catholic	114	70	-44
17	Campbell*	174	131	-43
17	Kentucky	113	70	-43
19	Cincinnati	122	82	-40
20	Arkansas-Fayetteville	139	100	-39
21	Liberty	181	144	-37
22	Notre Dame	55	20	-35
22	Tulsa	155	120	-35
24	Alabama	73	40	-33
24	Florida State	67	34	-33
26	Samford	154	122	-32
27	Texas Tech	116	85	-31
28	Ave Maria	194	164	-30
29	Chicago	31	2	-29
29	Wayne State	91	62	-29
31	West Virginia	152	124	-28
32	Northern Kentucky	158	131	-27
32	Penn State-Dickinson*	89	62	-27
34	Chapman	138	112	-26
35	Mercer	133	108	-25
35	Mississippi	149	124	-25
37	North Texas	183	159	-24
37	Richmond	86	62	-24
37	SUNY-Buffalo	106	82	-24
37	Wyoming	136	112	-24
41	Kansas	69	46	-23
42	Connecticut	80	58	-22
43	Drake	112	91	-21
43	Faulkner	185	164	-21
43	Iowa	53	32	-21
43	Western New England	180	159	-21
47	Pepperdine	66	46	-20
47	St. John’s	82	62	-20
49	SMU	61	42	-19
49	South Carolina	81	62	-19
49	Wisconsin	45	26	-19

*Denotes schools that did not submit statistical information to U.S. News. From the U.S News methodology: “schools that declined to provide statistical information to U.S. News had their academic peer ratings programmatically discarded before any computations were made. Nonresponders were still scored using the full complement of eligible ratings submitted by peer schools, but any ratings they made of other schools were omitted.” For the complete list of boycotting schools for the past three years, see Law Schools That Boycotted The U.S. News Rankings.

2025-26 U.S. News Omnibus Specialty Rankings v. Overall Rankings

2026-27 U.S. News Specialty Rankings: