The new 2025-26 U.S. News Tax Rankings include the tax programs at 195 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Florida |
| 3 | Georgetown |
| 3 | Northwestern |
| 5 | Virginia |
| 6 | Chicago |
| 6 | Michigan |
| 8 | Columbia |
| 8 | UC-Irvine |
| 10 | Duke |
| 10 | UCLA |
| 12 | Boston College |
| 12 | Harvard |
| 12 | Texas |
| 15 | Boston University |
| 15 | USC |
| 15 | Yale |
| 18 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 18 | North Carolina |
| 18 | San Diego |
| 18 | Stanford |
| 22 | Penn |
| 23 | Fordham |
| 23 | George Washington |
| 23 | Pepperdine |
| 26 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 26 | Minnesota |
| 26 | UC-Davis |
| 29 | Temple |
| 29 | UC Law – SF |
| 31 | Alabama |
| 31 | Cornell |
| 31 | Miami |
| 31 | UC-Berkeley |
| 35 | Arizona State |
| 35 | Florida State |
| 35 | Ohio State |
| 35 | Pittsburgh |
| 35 | Villanova |
| 35 | Washington Univ. |
| 41 | American |
| 41 | BYU |
| 41 | Cardozo |
| 41 | Emory |
| 41 | Georgia |
| 41 | Houston |
| 41 | Notre Dame |
| 41 | University of Washington |
| 41 | Wisconsin |
| 50 | Brooklyn |
| 50 | South Carolina |
| 50 | Vanderbilt |
Among the law schools in the tax rankings last year, here are the biggest upward moves:
- 14: Ohio State (#35)
- 13: American (#41)
- 9: Miami (#31)
- 8: Emory (#41), Notre Dame (#41)
- 5: George Washington (#23), Pepperdine (#23), Alabama (#31), Arizona State (#35), Pittsburgh (#35)
Here are the biggest downward moves:
- -11: UC-Berkeley (#31)
- -10: Vanderbilt (#50)
- -9: Houston (#41)
- -7: Florida State (#35)
- -5: Loyola-L.A. (#18), Georgia (#41), University of Washington (#41)
Here are the rankings of law schools with graduate tax programs:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Florida |
| 3 | Georgetown |
| 3 | Northwestern |
| 5 | UC-Irvine |
| 6 | Boston Univ. |
| 7 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 7 | San Diego |
| 9 | Temple |
| 10 | Alabama |
| 10 | Miami |
| 12 | Villanova |
| 12 | Washington Univ. |
| 14 | Emory |
| 14 | Houston |
| 14 | University of Washington |
| 17 | Denver |
| 17 | SMU |
| 17 | Wayne State |
| 20 | Loyola-Chicago |
| 20 | San Francisco |
| 22 | Baltimore |
| 23 | New York Law School |
| 24 | Chapman |
| 24 | Chicago-Kent |
| 26 | DePaul |
| 27 | Illinois-Chicago |
| 27 | Missouri-Kansas City |
| 29 | Suffolk |
| 30 | Capital |
Prior Years’ U.S. News Tax Rankings:
- 2024-25
- 2023-24
- 2022-23
- 2021-22
- 2020-21
- 2019-20
- 2018-19
- 2017-18
- 2016-17
- 2015-16
- 2014-15
- 2013-14
- 2012-13
- 2011-12
- 2010-11
- 2009-10
- 2008-09
- 2007-08
- 2006-07
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
Editor’s Note: If you would like to receive a daily email with links to legal education posts on TaxProf Blog, email me here.
