{"id":101654,"date":"2025-01-24T08:02:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/24\/the-most-diverse-law-schools-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-01-24T08:02:42","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T16:02:42","slug":"the-most-diverse-law-schools-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/24\/the-most-diverse-law-schools-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Diverse Law Schools (2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Which law schools do you think came out on top of this list?
\nThe post The Most Diverse Law Schools (2025) appeared first on Above the Law.<\/p>\n

\"lawAffirmative action may have been dismantled in higher education and diversity may be under attack, but this hasn\u2019t stopped students from navigating the pathway to law school. Despite these challenges, law schools have been doing their very best to recruit diverse students and professors, attempting to make the legal profession look more like society at large. Student diversity may sadly be declining, but if you\u2019re a person of color searching for a law school where you\u2019ll be truly valued for who you are as a person, then have we got a ranking for you.<\/p>\n

The National Jurist\u2019s preLaw magazine<\/a> recently released its Most Diverse Law Schools ranking, highlighting the schools that are really doing their homework when it comes to diversifying their institutions. Here\u2019s the methodology that was used:<\/p>\n

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We graded schools based on how well each school matches with the U.S. average for each minority population. For students, we looked at Asian (which includes native Hawaiian), Black, Hispanic, Caucasian and American Indian populations. For faculty, we compared the percentage of minority faculty members to the overall U.S. minority population. A school received full credit when it matched the national average and could receive up to 40% added value if its percentage was higher than the national average for each population. Faculty diversity accounted for 25% of the final grade, with each student population accounting for 16.67%, except American Indian, which accounted for 8.32% of the final grade. We have used this methodology since 2013.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Without further ado, here are the top 20 most diverse law schools:<\/p>\n

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  1. CUNY School of Law<\/li>\n
  2. Texas Southern University<\/li>\n
  3. University District of Columbia<\/li>\n
  4. Florida A&M University<\/li>\n
  5. UNT Dallas | College of Law<\/li>\n
  6. University of San Francisco<\/li>\n
  7. Atlanta\u2019s John Marshall<\/li>\n
  8. Penn State \u2013 Dickinson Law<\/li>\n
  9. North Carolina Central University<\/li>\n
  10. Barry Law School<\/li>\n
  11. University of Nevada, Las Vegas<\/li>\n
  12. University of Arizona<\/li>\n
  13. Northern Illinois University<\/li>\n
  14. UCLA Law<\/li>\n
  15. South Texas Houston<\/li>\n
  16. Yale Law School<\/li>\n
  17. Southwestern Law School<\/li>\n
  18. University of Houston<\/li>\n
  19. George Washington University<\/li>\n
  20. Oklahoma City University<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    As you can see, two of the best law schools in the country \u2014 UCLA and Yale \u2014 made their way to the top of the diversity ranking this time around. If you\u2019re looking for T14 law schools, you\u2019ll find several of them in the unranked portion of this list, designated only by their letter grades (A-). Click here<\/a> to see the full rankings, courtesy of National Jurist.<\/p>\n

    Congratulations to each of the law schools listed and all of their students!<\/p>\n

    Most Diverse Law Schools<\/a> [preLaw magazine \/ National Jurist]<\/p>\n

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    \"StaciStaci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Which law schools do you think came out on top of this list? The post The Most Diverse Law Schools (2025) appeared first on Above the Law. Affirmative action may have been dismantled in higher education and diversity may be under attack, but this hasn\u2019t stopped students from navigating the pathway to law school. Despite […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":101655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/law-firm-diversity-GettyImages-1034315268-UY8ysb.jpeg?fit=2119%2C1414&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}