NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL’S GO-TO RANKINGS
| Go To Rank | U.S. News Rank (2014) | School | Number of First Year Associates | Number of Juris Doctors | Percent of Grads at NLJ 250 Firms | Top Employer |
1 | 4 | Columbia | 286 | 437 | 65.45% | Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton |
2 | 4 | U. of Chicago | 119 | 215 | 55.34% | Kirkland & Ellis |
3 | 6 | NYU | 295 | 537 | 54.93% | Davis Polk & Wardwell |
4 | 2 | Harvard | 309 | 577 | 53.55% | Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton |
5 | 7 | U. of Pennsylvania | 136 | 259 | 52.51% | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (Tie) |
6 | 12 | Northwestern | 146 | 286 | 51.05% | Kirkland & Ellis |
7 | 11 | Duke | 117 | 241 | 48.55% | Latham & Watkins |
8 | 2 | Stanford | 89 | 189 | 47.09% | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher and O’Melveny & Myers (Tie) |
9 | 13 | Cornell | 87 | 193 | 45.08% | Cleary Gottleb Steen & Hamilton and Davis Polk & Wardell |
10 | 9 | Cal-Berkeley | 135 | 301 | 44.85% | Bingham McCutchen and Paul Hastings (Tie) |
11 | 7 | Virginia | 161 | 364 | 44.23% | Latham & Watkins |
12 | 9 | Michigan | 165 | 400 | 41.25% | Kirkland & Ellis |
13 | 1 | Yale | 80 | 206 | 38.83% | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher |
14 | 14 | Georgetown | 238 | 638 | 37.30% | Kirkland & Ellis |
15 | 15 | U. of Texas | 120 | 378 | 31.75% | Vinson & Elkins |
16 | 15 | Vanderbilt | 65 | 206 | 31.55% | Bass, Berry & Sims |
17 | 17 | UCLA | 101 | 332 | 30.42% | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Latham & Watkins, and O’Melveny & Myers (Tie) |
18 | 18 | USC | 65 | 220 | 29.55% | Gibson Dunn & Crutcher |
19 | 38 | Fordham | 118 | 481 | 24.53% | Kirkland & Ellis |
20 | 23 | Notre Dame | 45 | 184 | 24.46% | Kirkland & Ellis |
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