The new 2024-25 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings include the criminal law programs at 196 law schools (the faculty survey had a 49% response rate). Here are the Top 50:
| Rank | School |
| 1 | NYU |
| 2 | Harvard |
| 2 | Stanford |
| 4 | UC-Berkeley |
| 5 | Georgetown |
| 5 | Michigan |
| 7 | Columbia |
| 7 | Duke |
| 7 | Penn |
| 7 | UCLA |
| 7 | Virginia |
| 12 | Chicago |
| 12 | Yale |
| 14 | Vanderbilt |
| 15 | Fordham |
| 15 | Northwestern |
| 15 | Ohio State |
| 18 | UC-Davis |
| 18 | Washington Univ. |
| 20 | Brooklyn |
| 20 | Cornell |
| 20 | North Carolina |
| 20 | Texas |
| 24 | American |
| 24 | Arizona State |
| 24 | Boston University |
| 24 | George Washington |
| 24 | Illinois |
| 24 | Minnesota |
| 24 | UC-Irvine |
| 24 | Wake Forest |
| 24 | William & Mary |
| 33 | SMU |
| 34 | Emory |
| 34 | Indiana (Maurer) |
| 34 | Iowa |
| 34 | Loyola-L.A. |
| 34 | Maryland |
| 34 | Tulane |
| 34 | USC |
| 34 | Utah |
| 34 | Wisconsin |
| 43 | Alabama |
| 43 | Cardozo |
| 43 | Denver |
| 43 | Florida State |
| 43 | University of Arizona |
| 48 | Florida |
| 48 | Georgia |
| 48 | Howard |
| 48 | Rutgers |
2023-24 U.S. News Criminal Law Rankings
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