The new 2025-26 U.S. News Clinical Training Rankings include the clinical training law programs at 185 law schools (the faculty survey had a 54% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | Georgetown |
| 2 | American |
| 2 | NYU |
| 4 | Baltimore |
| 4 | CUNY |
| 4 | Michigan |
| 4 | UC-Berkeley |
| 8 | Denver |
| 8 | Maryland |
| 8 | Suffolk |
| 8 | Yale |
| 12 | Northwestern |
| 12 | Rutgers |
| 14 | Fordham |
| 14 | New Mexico |
| 14 | Stanford |
| 14 | Tennessee |
| 14 | UC-Irvine |
| 19 | Columbia |
| 19 | District of Columbia |
| 19 | Minnesota |
| 19 | Northeastern |
| 19 | Washington Univ. |
| 24 | Brooklyn |
| 24 | George Washington |
| 24 | Harvard |
| 24 | Miami |
| 24 | Mitchell | Hamline |
| 24 | UCLA |
| 24 | UNLV |
| 31 | Boston University |
| 31 | Cardozo |
| 31 | Cornell |
| 31 | Duke |
| 31 | Howard |
| 31 | Loyola-New Orleans |
| 31 | Penn |
| 31 | Seattle |
| 31 | South Carolina |
| 31 | Texas |
| 31 | Tulane |
| 31 | Vanderbilt |
| 43 | Albany |
| 43 | Boston College |
| 43 | Chicago |
| 43 | Georgia State |
| 43 | Pepperdine |
| 43 | St. Thomas (MN) |
| 43 | UC Law – SF |
| 43 | University of Washington |
| 43 | Villanova |
| 43 | Wisconsin |
2024-25 U.S. News Clinical Law Rankings
2025-26 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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