Earlier this week, QS dropped its 2024 World Law School Rankings. Harvard Law, once again took the top spot. In fact, the top nine remained the same as last year. The University of Melbourne emerged as the only new entrant into the top ten, moving up one slot from the 11th rank last year.
QS bases its law school rankings on an aggregate of four indicators: academic reputation, employer reputation, research citations per paper, and H-indices (a measure of the productivity and impact of a university department’s research). Harvard not only achieved a perfect score on three of the four indicators, but it was the only school to achieve a perfect score on any of the indicators.
U.S.-based law schools showed well, taking six of the top ten spots, while U.K.-based schools took an additional three. Below, we’ve listed the top ten, as well as the U.S.-based schools ranked in the top 50. Check out the full ranking here.
Top Ten:
1. Harvard University
2. University of Oxford, United Kingdom
3. University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
4. Yale University
5. Stanford University
6. New York University
7. The London School of Economics and POlitical Science, United Kingdom
8. Columbia University
9. University of California, Berkeley
10. The University of Melbourne, Australia
U.S.-based Schools Ranked in the Top 50:
11. University of Chicago
19. University of California, Los Angeles
23. Georgetown University
29. University of Pennsylvania
30. Duke University
34. Cornell University
36. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
50. University of Virginia