US News Law School Rankings 2016

US News Law School Ranking 2016They are here! The eagerly awaited U.S.News Law School Rankings for 2016 have been published.

Yale is still ranked as the #1 law school in the U.S., while Harvard – although still at #2 – now has to share its spot with Stanford.

Other notable movers include the newly ranked University of California, Irvine (ranked at #30), Berkeley (advanced one spot to #8), Duke (advanced two spots to #8), and Michigan (fell one spot and is now out of the Top 10).

 

Here are the Top 20 law schools as listed in the 2016 U.S. News Law School Ranking (with changes from last year noted in brackets):

1. Yale

2. Harvard

2. Stanford (+1)

4. Columbia

4. Chicago

6. NYU

7. Penn

8. Virginia

8. Berkeley (+1)

8. Duke (+2)

11. Michigan (-1)

12. Northwestern

13. Cornell

14. Georgetown (-1)

15. Texas

16. UCLA

17. Vanderbilt (-1)

18. Washington University, St. Louis

19. Emory

20. USC

20. Minnesota

The full U.S.News and World Report law school rankings for 2016 can be accessed here.

If you are interested in this topic, please also check out our compilation of LL.M. rankings.

 

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