World Ranking Guide

According to the Vault Survey, Stanford has the highest ranked law school nationally, with U of Michigan in the 2nd position and New York U in the 3rd position.

Stanford Law School is ranked in the top two positions by the US News & World Report annual rankings, behind Yale. Stanford offers three one-year master's degree programs and a doctoral degree (JSD) for foreign graduate students who have earned a law degree outside the United States.

The Top 25 list:
1. Stanford University
2. University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
3. New York University
4. University of Virginia
5. University of Chicago
6. Harvard
7. Columbia
8. University of California, Berkeley - Boalt Hall School of Law
9. Northwestern University
10. Yale Law School
11. Vanderbilt Uni
12. Duke Uni
13. Uni of Pennsylvania
14. Indiana Uni School of Law - Bloomington
15. Cornell Uni
16. Univ of Minnesota - Twin Cities
17. Georgetown Univ Law Center
18. Univ of California, Los Angeles
19. Univ of Iowa College of Law
20. George Washington Univ
21. Boston Univ
22. Univ of Texas at Austin
23. Univ of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
24. Emory Univ
25. Univ of Wisconsin

Source: Vault 2008 Top 25 Law Schools Survey

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