2024 USNews ADR Specialty Rankings

This year the USNews rankings came out with little fanfare, or the fanfare was that they were on the cusp of being released and then weren’t for 6 weeks or more as they corrected their data.  And once they did come out, it seemed that no one noticed.  But others did notice, most notably Tax Prof Blog who is posting all of the specialty rankings .  As you can see below, there is noted movement at the top as the 15 year Ohio State / Pepperdine wrestling match for the top spot has ended with Harvard taking the crown for 2024.  And welcome to the top 5 Cardozo, the first time in what seems like forever that anyone outside of the perennial top 5 of OSU/Pepperdine/Harvard/Missouri/Mitchell-Hamline appears there.

Happy reading and congrats to all.  (note the asterisk indicates a school that now boycotts the USNews rankings)

Rank Score School
1 4.5 Harvard*
2 4.4 Ohio State
2 4.4 Pepperdine Caruso
4 4.3 Missouri (Columbia)
5 4.2 Cardozo
5 4.2 Mitchell | Hamline*
7 4.0 Northwestern*
7 4.0 Texas A&M
9 3.9 Maryland*
9 3.9 UNLV
11 3.8 Oregon
11 3.8 Stanford*
11 3.8 UC-San Francisco*
14 3.7 Arizona State
15 3.6 Fordham
16 3.5 Creighton*
16 3.5 Texas
18 3.4 Florida
18 3.4 Stetson
18 3.4 Washington University
21 3.3 Georgetown*
21 3.3 Michigan State
21 3.3 Quinnipiac*
21 3.3 South Texas*
21 3.3 Virginia*
26 3.2 Columbia*
26 3.2 Kansas
26 3.2 Suffolk
29 3.1 Cornell*
29 3.1 NYU*
29 3.1 UC-Berkeley*
32 3.0 Marquette
32 3.0 UC-Davis*
34 2.9 Duke*
34 2.9 George Washington
34 2.9 Michigan*
34 2.9 Pacific
34 2.9 Penn*
34 2.9 UCLA*
34 2.9 University of Arizona
34 2.9 Vanderbilt*
34 2.9 Yale*
43 2.8 Denver
43 2.8 Illinois
43 2.8 Loyola-Chicago*
43 2.8 Nebraska*
43 2.8 Tulane*
43 2.8 UC-Irvine*
43 2.8 University of Washington*
50 2.7 Arkansas-Little Rock
50 2.7 BYU
50 2.7 Emory
50 2.7 Georgia
50 2.7 Hofstra
50 2.7 Miami
50 2.7 SMU
50 2.7 Southwestern*
50 2.7 St. John’s*
50 2.7 Texas Tech