{"id":114013,"date":"2025-04-08T10:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/08\/u-s-news-releases-two-wildly-different-versions-of-the-2025-law-school-rankings-at-the-same-time\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T18:03:09","slug":"u-s-news-releases-two-wildly-different-versions-of-the-2025-law-school-rankings-at-the-same-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/08\/u-s-news-releases-two-wildly-different-versions-of-the-2025-law-school-rankings-at-the-same-time\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. News Releases Two Wildly Different Versions Of The 2025 Law School Rankings At The Same Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2025\u00a0U.S. News & World Report law school rankings<\/a>\u00a0have finally arrived \u2014 complete with their fair share of drama and absurdity. Stay tuned for some extra shenanigans, because U.S. News has TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT RANKINGS<\/strong> listed in TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT PLACES<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Please note the UPDATES<\/u> below. Click here<\/a> to see the official ranking.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the list \u2014 maybe, but who knows? \u2014 of the top law schools in the nation, as ranked by U.S. News & World Report in the year 2025. The ranking discussed below comes from the U.S. News Best Law Schools<\/a> site (as originally published circa 9:00 p.m. EST). A separate version of the 2025 U.S. News law school ranking can be found here<\/a> (which also curiously carries a 9:00 p.m. EST publication time).<\/p>\n

Which one is correct? Your guess is as good as ours!<\/p>\n

That said, take a look at the prestigious T14, where there were some interesting moves:<\/p>\n

\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Stanford University<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Yale University<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Chicago<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Virginia<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Pennsylvania<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Duke University<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harvard University<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
New York University<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n+1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of Michigan<\/td>\n8 (but also 9?)<\/td>\n+1\/-<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Columbia University<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n-2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of California-Berkeley<\/td>\n12<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
University of California\u2013Los Angeles<\/td>\n13<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Cornell University<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Georgetown University<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n\u2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/figure>\n

Yale remains tied for the No. 1 spot with Stanford. We suppose U.S. News couldn\u2019t be too<\/em> controversial<\/a>. This still represents a major shake-up within the T14, with UVA remaining as the only school at No. 4, while Penn, Duke, and Harvard, each fell down a spot or two. Woe is Harvard, now tied at No. 6! NYU is up, while Columbia is down, and Michigan somehow claims not one, but two<\/em> spots in the Top 14. U.S. News may not have caught that error, but we sure did. And thanks to that error, Northwestern is completely missing from the rankings. Last but not least, the T in T14 now stands for tie, because there\u2019s a tie between Cornell and Georgetown at the bottom of the top.<\/p>\n

UPDATE<\/u><\/strong>: The screenshots below were taken at about 9:00 p.m. EST, reflecting what was published on U.S. News at that time. The official version of the ranking is now online, and is available here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But wait, again, there is a SEPARATE<\/strong> version of the T14 that can be found on another U.S. News website<\/a>. That version is WILDLY<\/em><\/strong> different from the one discussed above. Here it is:<\/p>\n