Note USNWR calls this “2016″ Rankings
- Yale
- Harvard
- Stanford (+1)
- Columbia
- Chicago
- NYU
- Penn
- UVa
- Berkeley (+1)
- Duke (+2)
- Michigan (-1)
- Northwestern
- Cornell
- GULC (-1)
- Texas
- UCLA
- Vanderbilt (-1)
- Wash U
- Emory
- USC
- Minnesota
Note USNWR calls this “2016″ Rankings


Law school rankings organized in tiers—based on reputational survey data from hiring partners, practicing attorneys, and judges.


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