Law School Rankings 2026

Name: 2026 US Law School Rankings
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Complete rankings for 203 US law schools with LSAT medians, GPA medians, acceptance rates, and tuition. Data sourced from official ABA 509 disclosures.

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Data: ABA 509 disclosures · Last updated June 2026

203

Schools Ranked

158

Median LSAT (all)

3.66

Median GPA (all)

36.5%

Median Acceptance

T-14 Law Schools

The 14 most selective law schools in the US, often referred to as the “T-14.”

#	School	LSAT	GPA	Accept %	Tuition	Employment
1	Yale Law School New Haven, CT	174	3.96	4.06%	$76,636	99.53%
2	Stanford Law School Stanford, CA	173	3.96	6.1%	$77,454	100%
3	Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA	174	3.96	9.2%	$77,100	98.23%
4	Columbia Law School New York, NY	173	3.92	11.84%	$85,368	99.04%
5	University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL	174	3.97	9.74%	$83,316	99.5%
6	NYU School of Law New York, NY	172	3.92	13.39%	$83,952	99.24%
7	Penn Carey Law School Philadelphia, PA	173	3.95	8.05%	$78,348	100%
8	UVA School of Law Charlottesville, VA	173	3.99	10.17%	$74,078	99.33%
9	Berkeley Law Berkeley, CA	170	3.92	14.84%	$62,532	100%
10	Duke Law School Durham, NC	171	3.91	12.88%	$80,100	100%
11	Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Chicago, IL	173	3.96	12.3%	$79,772	99.63%
12	Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI	171	3.88	8.57%	$76,108	99.07%
13	Cornell Law School Ithaca, NY	173	3.92	18.19%	$84,722	99.49%
14	Georgetown Law Washington, DC	171	3.93	15.75%	$83,576	98.94%

Complete Law School Rankings

All 201 ranked US law schools sorted by position.

#	School	LSAT	GPA	Accept %	Tuition
1	Yale Law School New Haven, CT	174	3.96	4.06%	$76,636
2	Stanford Law School Stanford, CA	173	3.96	6.1%	$77,454
3	Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA	174	3.96	9.2%	$77,100
4	Columbia Law School New York, NY	173	3.92	11.84%	$85,368
5	University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL	174	3.97	9.74%	$83,316
6	NYU School of Law New York, NY	172	3.92	13.39%	$83,952
7	Penn Carey Law School Philadelphia, PA	173	3.95	8.05%	$78,348
8	UVA School of Law Charlottesville, VA	173	3.99	10.17%	$74,078
9	Berkeley Law Berkeley, CA	170	3.92	14.84%	$62,532
10	Duke Law School Durham, NC	171	3.91	12.88%	$80,100
11	Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Chicago, IL	173	3.96	12.3%	$79,772
12	Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI	171	3.88	8.57%	$76,108
13	Cornell Law School Ithaca, NY	173	3.92	18.19%	$84,722
14	Georgetown Law Washington, DC	171	3.93	15.75%	$83,576
15	UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA	171	3.95	12.05%	$59,084
16	Texas Law Austin, TX	172	3.89	13.99%	$38,236
17	Vanderbilt Law School Nashville, TN	170	3.91	13.26%	$76,440
18	WashU Law St. Louis, MO	175	3.96	18.96%	$72,792
19	USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles, CA	169	3.91	11.17%	$900
20	BU School of Law Boston, MA	170	3.88	12.08%	$69,870
21	Notre Dame Law School Notre Dame, IN	170	3.89	16.07%	$73,430
22	Minnesota Law School Minneapolis, MN	171	3.88	26.7%	$51,440
23	GW Law School Washington, DC	168	3.86	27.21%	$75,420
23	Washington and Lee University School of Law Lexington, VA	167	3.75	22.73%	$57,450
24	Alabama Law Tuscaloosa, AL	167	3.97	25.63%	$24,980
25	UF Levin College of Law Gainesville, FL	169	3.91	16.52%	$19,139
26	Georgia Law Athens, GA	169	3.92	12.72%	$18,044
27	ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law Phoenix, AZ	165	3.91	19.78%	$28,390
28	Wake Forest Law Winston-Salem, NC	166	3.79	24.63%	$57,920
29	Boston College Law School Newton, MA	168	3.83	8.48%	$72,380
30	William & Mary Law School Williamsburg, VA	166	3.82	21.97%	$38,734
31	Wisconsin Law School Madison, WI	167	3.81	19.12%	$36,526
32	UNC School of Law Chapel Hill, NC	168	3.89	11.19%	$28,082
33	Ohio State Moritz College of Law Columbus, OH	168	3.91	24.62%	$35,650
34	Fordham Law School New York, NY	168	3.79	16.22%	$78,078
35	Indiana Maurer School of Law Bloomington, IN	164	3.91	35.77%	$36,950
36	Iowa Law Iowa City, IA	164	3.78	44.28%	$30,944
37	Emory Law School Atlanta, GA	166	3.82	30.09%	$69,510
38	UC Irvine School of Law Irvine, CA	169	3.80	14.92%	$59,080
39	UW School of Law Seattle, WA	165	3.76	19.61%	$45,927
40	Colorado Law Boulder, CO	164	3.81	27.56%	$35,992
41	Antonin Scalia Law School Arlington, VA	169	3.93	15.87%	$24,864
42	UC Davis School of Law Davis, CA	165	3.70	15.97%	$57,460
43	Illinois College of Law Champaign, IL	166	3.81	32.93%	$36,500
44	BYU Law School Provo, UT	170	3.95	22.8%	$15,992
45	Arizona Law Tucson, AZ	163	3.78	27.91%	$26,490
46	Temple Beasley School of Law Philadelphia, PA	165	3.76	24.38%	$32,588
47	SMU Dedman School of Law Dallas, TX	167	3.81	24.59%	$60,844
48	Maryland Carey Law Baltimore, MD	164	3.72	26.08%	$37,830
49	Tulane Law School New Orleans, LA	161	3.67	39.97%	$69,578
50	Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law Salt Lake City, UT	166	3.87	25.28%	$34,721
51	UH Law Center Houston, TX	163	3.79	22.99%	$31,326
52	Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law New York, NY	165	3.78	29.56%	$74,438
52	UConn School of Law Hartford, CT	162	3.78	20.05%	$30,354
52	University of Richmond School of Law Richmond, VA	164	3.81	39.64%	$57,700
53	FSU College of Law Tallahassee, FL	166	3.93	15.97%	—
54	Pepperdine Caruso School of Law Malibu, CA	164	3.85	23.36%	$72,920
55	Pitt Law Pittsburgh, PA	160	3.54	34.87%	$39,936
56	KU Law Lawrence, KS	162	3.85	39.08%	—
56	Baylor University School of Law Waco, TX	164	3.77	20.59%	—
57	Seton Hall Law Newark, NJ	161	3.71	34.27%	$69,660
58	Penn State Law University Park, PA	159	3.71	42.99%	$60,048
59	UK College of Law Lexington, KY	159	3.72	40.78%	$25,685
60	University of California College of the Law, San Francisco San Francisco, CA	161	3.71	27.48%	$53,087
60	Tennessee College of Law Knoxville, TN	164	3.89	24.77%	$16,696
61	Rutgers Law School Newark, NJ	158	3.66	33.54%	$31,577
62	Case Western Law Cleveland, OH	162	3.76	34.8%	$64,600
63	UNLV Boyd School of Law Las Vegas, NV	160	3.76	30.78%	$31,518
64	Loyola Law School Los Angeles, CA	163	3.74	26.05%	$70,360
65	Denver Sturm College of Law Denver, CO	160	3.66	41.33%	$63,390
66	St. John's Law Queens, NY	164	3.81	23.05%	$75,170
67	USD School of Law San Diego, CA	163	3.84	23.51%	$66,950
68	Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago, IL	161	3.72	38.61%	—
68	Lewis & Clark Law School Portland, OR	161	3.59	54.72%	$61,434
69	Oregon Law Eugene, OR	160	3.62	54.97%	$47,240
70	OU College of Law Norman, OK	162	3.73	33.36%	$18,739
71	Loyola Chicago Law Chicago, IL	161	3.70	28.18%	$58,670
72	Mizzou Law Columbia, MO	161	3.72	41.98%	—
73	South Carolina Law Columbia, SC	162	3.67	29.9%	$20,322
74	Villanova Law Villanova, PA	164	3.80	25.93%	$59,800
75	Cincinnati Law Cincinnati, OH	159	3.80	32.74%	$24,010
76	Northeastern Law Boston, MA	164	3.77	24.22%	$65,652
77	UNM School of Law Albuquerque, NM	157	3.56	41.41%	$19,474
77	American University Washington College of Law Washington, DC	162	3.63	33.28%	$66,990
78	Nebraska Law Lincoln, NE	160	3.81	40.15%	—
79	Santa Clara Law Santa Clara, CA	159	3.50	52.58%	—
80	Arkansas Law Fayetteville, AR	158	3.71	26.63%	—
81	Louisville Brandeis Law Louisville, KY	157	3.67	63.39%	$27,000
82	MSU College of Law East Lansing, MI	162	3.73	26.02%	$43,480
83	Syracuse Law Syracuse, NY	158	3.60	34.59%	$64,650
84	Marquette Law Milwaukee, WI	158	3.70	22.11%	$51,970
85	Texas Tech University School of Law Lubbock, TX	159	3.69	25.61%	$22,590
85	Hawaii Richardson Law Honolulu, HI	158	3.62	26.24%	$23,304
86	Miami Law Coral Gables, FL	164	3.79	24.65%	$66,720
87	Drexel Kline Law Philadelphia, PA	160	3.76	29.64%	$57,000
88	Brooklyn Law School Brooklyn, NY	161	3.59	44%	$75,496
89	Hofstra Law Hempstead, NY	157	3.65	40.56%	$73,344
90	The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law Ponce, PR	161	3.68	32.4%	$61,580
90	USF School of Law San Francisco, CA	155	3.47	42.38%	$59,800
91	McGeorge School of Law Sacramento, CA	156	3.52	54.41%	$62,678
92	Albany Law School Albany, NY	158	3.54	37.45%	$63,994
93	DePaul Law Chicago, IL	158	3.61	34.81%	$55,328
94	New York Law School New York, NY	157	3.63	39.67%	$71,052
95	Georgia State Law Atlanta, GA	160	3.64	30.57%	$16,162
95	University at Buffalo School of Law Buffalo, NY	157	3.71	42.37%	$26,430
96	Wayne State Law Detroit, MI	164	3.89	24.81%	$38,861
97	South Texas Law Houston Houston, TX	155	3.41	33.65%	$42,960
97	Stetson University College of Law Gulfport, FL	159	3.63	36.44%	$56,521
98	University of Baltimore Law Baltimore, MD	155	3.45	49.5%	$33,944
99	Creighton Law Omaha, NE	153	3.51	64.54%	—
100	California Western Law San Diego, CA	155	3.50	46.92%	$64,720
104	Ole Miss Law Oxford, MS	157	3.68	41.96%	$19,797
104	University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law Concord, NH	155	3.50	51.96%	$42,000
108	Howard University School of Law Washington, DC	156	3.63	24.05%	$39,780
110	WVU Law Morgantown, WV	155	3.65	40.34%	$26,370
111	LSU Law Center Baton Rouge, LA	157	3.74	38.55%	$19,750
112	CUNY School of Law New York, NY	155	3.54	28.65%	$15,450
113	Wyoming Law Laramie, WY	156	3.55	35.82%	—
114	Montana Law Missoula, MT	156	3.64	51.41%	$24,582
115	USD Law Vermillion, SD	152	3.47	62.62%	$12,076
116	UND Law Grand Forks, ND	151	3.48	63.09%	—
117	Idaho Law Moscow, ID	153	3.54	66.76%	$27,516
118	Maine Law Portland, ME	158	3.70	37.27%	$26,100
120	Cleveland-Marshall Law Cleveland, OH	155	3.50	34.45%	$29,766
120	Mercer University School of Law Macon, GA	157	3.62	37.75%	$44,782
121	Akron Law Akron, OH	154	3.51	58.53%	$22,359
122	Toledo Law Toledo, OH	153	3.53	52.52%	$26,446
123	Drake Law Des Moines, IA	156	3.67	54.82%	$50,920
125	Quinnipiac Law Hamden, CT	155	3.65	43.1%	$56,610
127	Pace Law White Plains, NY	154	3.54	44.13%	$56,648
129	New York Law School New York, NY	153	3.32	52.5%	$59,130
130	Southwestern Law Los Angeles, CA	157	3.51	36.47%	$63,160
131	University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law Memphis, TN	155	3.53	41.07%	$18,634
132	Thomas Jefferson Law San Diego, CA	148	3.15	72.5%	$49,500
133	Western State Law Irvine, CA	152	3.36	43.67%	$54,840
134	Whittier Law Costa Mesa, CA	148	3.12	65.8%	$48,970
136	Thurgood Marshall Law Houston, TX	150	3.33	33.12%	$19,202
137	St. Mary's Law San Antonio, TX	153	3.49	25.98%	$44,910
138	Texas A&M Law Fort Worth, TX	169	4.00	12.1%	$32,634
139	UNT Dallas Law Dallas, TX	153	3.41	24.22%	—
139	University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law Little Rock, AR	153	3.41	54.89%	$13,770
140	OCU Law Oklahoma City, OK	151	3.56	51.61%	—
141	Tulsa Law Tulsa, OK	157	3.45	56.58%	$30,840
142	Barry Law Orlando, FL	150	3.23	55.94%	$42,000
143	Florida Coastal Law Jacksonville, FL	148	3.10	68.5%	$41,940
143	Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Hawthorne, NY	153	3.35	45.62%	$61,000
144	Ave Maria Law Naples, FL	155	3.36	46.95%	$49,500
145	Nova Southeastern Law Fort Lauderdale, FL	155	3.52	47.33%	$49,350
145	University of Massachusetts School of Law Worcester, MA	152	3.36	52.17%	$31,766
146	Elon Law Greensboro, NC	154	3.40	53.21%	$45,333
147	Campbell Law Raleigh, NC	156	3.51	50.68%	$51,840
148	Regent Law Virginia Beach, VA	158	3.68	44.32%	—
149	Liberty Law Lynchburg, VA	154	3.54	58.76%	$43,150
150	Appalachian Law Grundy, VA	146	3.20	60.93%	$41,000
151	Widener Delaware Law Wilmington, DE	152	3.33	59.68%	—
152	Widener Commonwealth Law Harrisburg, PA	150	3.33	60.4%	—
153	Roger Williams Law Bristol, RI	150	3.43	61.32%	$47,400
154	Vermont Law South Royalton, VT	152	3.25	58.53%	$55,382
155	Western New England Law Springfield, MA	153	3.27	51.89%	$50,320
156	New England Law Boston, MA	153	3.37	61.3%	$62,896
157	Suffolk Law Boston, MA	155	3.58	61.85%	$62,610
158	Duquesne Law Pittsburgh, PA	157	3.62	43.23%	$58,898
159	Dayton Law Dayton, OH	157	3.60	30.66%	—
160	Capital Law Columbus, OH	151	3.44	65.9%	$45,066
161	NKU Chase Law Highland Heights, KY	154	3.41	58.7%	$24,388
162	Detroit Mercy Law Detroit, MI	156	3.52	41.41%	—
164	WMU Cooley Law Lansing, MI	147	3.09	52.91%	—
165	Mitchell Hamline Law Saint Paul, MN	154	3.29	51.4%	$55,300
166	St. Thomas Law (MN) Minneapolis, MN	159	3.72	57.62%	$50,998
167	Washburn Law Topeka, KS	155	3.68	46.45%	—
168	UMKC Law Kansas City, MO	156	3.65	45.94%	—
169	SLU Law St. Louis, MO	157	3.61	56.43%	$55,260
170	Ohio Northern University Pettit College of Law Ada, OH	149	3.34	31.96%	$33,900
171	Gonzaga Law Spokane, WA	155	3.55	51.14%	$57,962
172	Seattle U Law Seattle, WA	159	3.60	38.93%	—
174	Willamette Law Salem, OR	154	3.48	61.42%	$56,600
176	Golden Gate Law San Francisco, CA	150	3.18	68.5%	$49,950
177	University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law Washington, DC	151	3.28	36.98%	$12,438
178	Chapman Fowler Law Orange, CA	163	3.70	20.53%	$63,126
179	La Verne Law Ontario, CA	152	3.28	55.2%	$52,650
180	UIC John Marshall Law Chicago, IL	153	3.40	52.57%	—
181	NIU Law DeKalb, IL	150	3.41	44.27%	$23,667
182	SIU Law Carbondale, IL	149	3.38	56.22%	—
183	IU McKinney Law Indianapolis, IN	155	3.58	55.86%	—
184	Belmont Law Nashville, TN	161	3.84	37.62%	$55,500
185	LMU Duncan Law Knoxville, TN	153	3.44	52.17%	—
186	Samford Cumberland Law Birmingham, AL	156	3.63	48.97%	$46,334
187	Faulkner Jones Law Montgomery, AL	150	3.33	53.87%	$39,900
188	Mississippi College Law Jackson, MS	152	3.37	59.8%	$37,980
189	Loyola New Orleans Law New Orleans, LA	154	3.47	50.93%	$55,024
190	Southern Law Center Baton Rouge, LA	147	3.15	56.55%	$11,338
191	NCCU Law Durham, NC	151	3.31	39.06%	$13,444
192	FAMU Law Orlando, FL	152	3.48	34.67%	—
193	Atlanta John Marshall Law Atlanta, GA	152	3.13	32.65%	$52,536
194	Charleston Law Charleston, SC	154	3.51	50.2%	$48,600
195	FIU Law Miami, FL	161	3.80	18.77%	—
196	St. Thomas Law (FL) Miami Gardens, FL	152	3.42	60.25%	$44,730
197	Inter American Law San Juan, PR	144	3.39	50.92%	$16,585
198	PUCPR Law Ponce, PR	139	3.33	61.54%	—
199	UPR Law San Juan, PR	152	3.77	39.69%	—
200	Concordia Law Boise, ID	148	3.08	72.5%	$38,500
Unranked Schools (2)
—	Jacksonville University College of Law Jacksonville, FL	156	3.48	35.14%	—
—	Wilmington University School of Law New Castle, DE	149	3.13	52.01%	—

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