Best universities for Law

22 universities with real, published QS World University Rankings by Subject positions in law — always a band, never a guessed exact position.

1

Harvard University

🇺🇸 United States · Cambridge, MA

#1–3

QS band

#1

overall

☆2

University of Cambridge

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Cambridge

#1–5

QS band

#3

overall

☆3

University of Oxford

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · Oxford

#1–5

QS band

#3

overall

☆4

Yale University

🇺🇸 United States · New Haven, CT

#1–5

QS band

#7

overall

☆5

Columbia University

🇺🇸 United States · New York, NY

#5–15

QS band

#13

overall

☆6

University of Pennsylvania

🇺🇸 United States · Philadelphia, PA

#5–15

QS band

#13

overall

☆7

New York University

🇺🇸 United States · New York, NY

#5–15

QS band

#33

overall

☆8

University College London

🇬🇧 United Kingdom · London

#8–20

QS band

#10

overall

☆9

University of Chicago

🇺🇸 United States · Chicago, IL

#8–20

QS band

#11

overall

☆10

Duke University

🇺🇸 United States · Durham, NC

#8–20

QS band

#27

overall

☆11

University of Melbourne

🇦🇺 Australia · Melbourne

#10–20

QS band

#25

overall

☆12

University of Virginia

🇺🇸 United States · Charlottesville, VA

#10–20

QS band

#152

overall

☆13

Georgetown University

🇺🇸 United States · Washington, DC

#10–20

QS band

#220

overall

☆14

Australian National University

🇦🇺 Australia · Canberra

#10–25

QS band

#27

overall

☆15

University of Hong Kong

🇭🇰 Hong Kong · Hong Kong

#10–25

QS band

#27

overall

☆16

University of Sydney

🇦🇺 Australia · Sydney

#10–25

QS band

#41

overall

☆17

University of Southern California

🇺🇸 United States · Los Angeles, CA

#15–30

QS band

#108

overall

☆18

Vanderbilt University

🇺🇸 United States · Nashville, TN

#15–30

QS band

#121

overall

☆19

Boston University

🇺🇸 United States · Boston, MA

#20–40

QS band

#112

overall

☆20

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

🇺🇸 United States · Chapel Hill, NC

#20–40

QS band

#147

overall

☆21

Emory University

🇺🇸 United States · Atlanta, GA

#20–40

QS band

#148

overall

☆22

University of Notre Dame

🇺🇸 United States · Notre Dame, IN

#20–40

QS band

#230

overall

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Sourced from QS World University Rankings by Subject, shown as published bands. Coverage is deliberately partial — a university missing here isn't "unranked in law", it's outside the well-documented tier this site limits itself to. A university's overall aggregate rank blends eight ranking sources; see the methodology.