The national law journal (NLJ) released the ranking of the Go-To law schools in Februrary. "Go-To" law schools are the ones which send the highest percentage of new graduates to the biggest 250 law firms.
Columbia Law School reaches the 1st place of the ranking, that had been held by the University of Pennsylvania for the last 2 years. It is interesting to see that Yale University, which is ranked N°1 by US News & World Report, is only at the 13th position in the Go-To law school ranking. Perhaps that’s because many Yale graduates are busy clerking it up for federal judges after graduation.
As excpected, tuitions fees are very high in the top 50. Annual tuition in the first 9 law schools exceeds $50,000. The less expensive one is Brigham Young University (41st place), where one year of law school learning costs less than $11,000!
Here is the top 10 :
1. Columbia Law School (65,45% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
2. University of Chicago Law School (55,34% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
3. New York University School of Law (54,93% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
4. Harvard Law School (53,55% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
5. University of Pennsylvania Law School (52,51% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
6. Northwestern University School of Law (51,05% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
7. Duke Law School (48,55% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
8. Stanford Law School (47,09% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
9. Cornell Law School (45,08% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
10. University of California, Berkeley School of Law (44,85% of graduates at 250 NLJ firms)
