Law School Rankings

At Northwestern Law, we support rankings as a source of consumer information and believe they provide one way to measure our reputation and our progress toward the objectives in our Strategic Plan. Though rankings fluctuate over the years, our overall trend has been positive and we are optimistic it will remain so, especially as more of our graduates enter the workforce following the new initiatives from our Working Group process.

The following is a compilation of Law School rankings from various sources.

U.S. News (April 2008):
Overall:	9th
U.S. News Specialty Rankings:
Trial Advocacy:	3rd
Clinical Education:	11th
Tax Law:	4th
Legal Writing:	8th
Dispute Resolution:	12th
Diversity:	12th (1st among top law schools)

Princeton Review (September 2007):
Best Career Prospects:	1st (3rd year in a row)
Toughest to Get Into:	8th
Best Classroom Experience:	10th
Best Environment for Minority Students:	6th
Best Quality of Life:	10th

Vault (March 2008):
Top 25 Law Schools:	9th

National Law Journal (April 2008):
Percentage of Graduates Hired by NLJ 250 firms:	2nd

Brian Leiter Rankings (updated in 2008):
Total Supreme Court Clerks 2000-2007 terms:	10th
Percentage of Federal Appellate Court Clerkships for 2008-09:	5th
Student Quality:	9th
Mean per capita scholarly impact (based on citations):	12th
Median per capita scholarly impact:	21st
Per Capita Placement in Law Teaching 2003-2007	12th
Success Rate of Law School Graduates on the Teaching Market 2006-2008	6th

The Consus Group (copyright is 2005):
Overall:	11th
Publications Ranking:	12th
Selectivity Ranking:	8th