The 50 Best Law Schools In The US

Given the absurdly high price tag on education and dim outlook on the legal job market, choosing the right law school makes all the difference.

We asked more than 400 American legal professionals to select the 10 law schools that would best serve a legal career. Harvard Law School was the resounding top answer.

Here's a more in-depth look at the 50 Best Law Schools In America >

Rank	Law School	Location	Tuition	Score
1	Harvard University	Cambridge, Mass.	$53,308	4.56
2	Yale University	New Haven, Conn.	$54,650	4.55
3	Columbia University	New York, N.Y.	$57,838	3.78
4	Stanford University	Palo Alto, Calif.	$50,802	3.65
5	Georgetown University	Washington, D.C.	$50,890	3.30
6	University of California - Berkeley	Berkeley, Calif.	$48,058	3.06
7	Cornell University	Ithaca, N.Y.	$55,301	2.78
8	New York University	New York, N.Y.	$48,950	2.67
9	Duke University	Durham, N.C.	$53,596	2.65
10	University of Chicago	Chicago, Ill.	$53,406	2.64
11	University of Michigan - Ann Arbor	Ann Arbor, Mich.	$52,784	2.31
12	University of Pennsylvania	Philadelphia, Penn.	$54,992	2.18
13	Northwestern University	Evanston, Ill.	$55,064	2.05
14	University of Virginia	Charlottesville, Va.	$52,900	2.00
15	University of Notre Dame	Notre Dame, Ind.	$48,730	1.98
16	University of California - Los Angeles	Los Angeles, Calif.	$51,720	1.77
17	George Washington University	Washington, D.C.	$49,840	1.71
18	Vanderbilt University	Nashville, Tenn.	$48,156	1.68
19	Boston College	Newton, Mass.	$45,231	1.66
20	University of Texas - Austin	Austin, Tex.	$49,244	1.48
21	University of California - Hastings	San Francisco, Calif.	$48,200	1.45
22	Boston University	Boston, Mass.	$45,786	1.42
23	American University (Washington)	Washington, D.C.	$48,148	1.40
24	Penn State University (Dickinson)	University Park, Penn.	$42,040	1.39
25	University of California - Davis	Davis, Calif.	$50,279	1.38
26	University of Southern California (Gould)	Los Angeles, Calif.	$56,256	1.37
27	College of William and Mary (Marshall-Wythe)	Williamsburg, Va.	$38,000	1.35
28	Washington University in St. Louis	St. Louis, Mo.	$48,715	1.32
29	Pepperdine University	Malibu, Calif.	$46,740	1.31
30	Tulane University	New Orleans, La.	$47,080	1.30
31	Emory University	Atlanta, Ga.	$48,174	1.30
32	Baylor University	Waco, Tex.	$50,706	1.30
33	Fordham University	New York, N.Y.	$50,996	1.30
34	University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill	Chapel Hill, N.C.	$38,846	1.29
35	University of Wisconsin - Madison	Madison, Wisc.	$40,062	1.29
36	Yeshiva University (Cardozo)	New York, N.Y.	$51,778	1.26
37	Washington and Lee University	Lexington, Va.	$43,570	1.25
38	University of Washington	Seattle, Wash.	$43,932	1.22
39	Loyola Marymount University	Los Angeles, Calif.	$45,980	1.22
40	University of Colorado - Boulder	Boulder, Colo.	$38,334	1.20
41	Wake Forest University	Winston-Salem, N.C.	$41,364	1.20
42	University of Minnesota - Twin Cities	Minneapolis, Minn.	$47,330	1.20
43	University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign	Champaign, Ill.	$49,657	1.20
44	Brigham Young University (Clark)	Provo, Utah	$22,560	1.18
45	George Mason University	Arlington, Va.	$40,737	1.18
46	University of Florida (Levin)	Gainesville, Fla.	$41,695	1.18
47	Ohio State University (Moritz)	Columbus, Ohio	$42,962	1.18
48	University of Georgia	Athens, Ga.	$36,410	1.16
49	Indiana University - Bloomington (Maurer)	Bloomington, Ind.	$48,962	1.14
50	University of Iowa	Iowa City, Iowa	$49,025	1.14

For this survey, we asked hundreds of legal professionals to select the 10 law schools that would be best for a legal career. We calculated the Business Insider rating score based on survey data. Tuition was used as a tiebreaker, with cheaper tuition pushing a school to a higher spot.