World University Index

ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects: Law

2026 edition, Law. Published by ShanghaiRanking Consultancy.

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Rank Institution Claim
1 Harvard University 1st in the world for Law
2 Yale University 2nd in the world for Law
3 University of Pennsylvania 3rd in the world for Law
4 New York University 4th in the world for Law
5 University of Cambridge 5th in the world for Law
6 University of Chicago 6th in the world for Law
7 Columbia University 7th in the world for Law
8 University of Oxford 8th in the world for Law
9 Northwestern University 9th in the world for Law
10 Arizona State University 10th in the world for Law
11 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor 11th in the world for Law
12 Stanford University 12th in the world for Law
13 Georgetown University 13th in the world for Law
14 University College London 14th in the world for Law
15 Duke University 15th in the world for Law
16 University of California, Irvine 16th in the world for Law
17 Cornell University 17th in the world for Law
18 University of California, Los Angeles 18th in the world for Law
19 University of Cincinnati 19th in the world for Law
20 Florida State University 20th in the world for Law
21 University of Virginia 21st in the world for Law
22 Leiden University 22nd in the world for Law
23 University of California, Berkeley 23rd in the world for Law
24 University of Southern California 24th in the world for Law
25 University of Toronto 25th in the world for Law
26 Sam Houston State University 26th in the world for Law
27 University of Amsterdam 27th in the world for Law
28 King's College London 28th in the world for Law
29 Simon Fraser University 29th in the world for Law
30 Utrecht University 30th in the world for Law
31 Michigan State University 31st in the world for Law
32 University of Melbourne 32nd in the world for Law
33 European University Institute 33rd in the world for Law
34 University of Minnesota 34th in the world for Law
35 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 35th in the world for Law
36 Hebrew University of Jerusalem 36th in the world for Law
37 University of South Carolina 37th in the world for Law
38 University of Central Florida 38th in the world for Law
39 George Washington University 39th in the world for Law
40 University of Hong Kong 40th in the world for Law
41 Monash University 41st in the world for Law
42 Erasmus University Rotterdam 42nd in the world for Law
43 George Mason University 43rd in the world for Law
44 London School of Economics and Political Science 44th in the world for Law
45 University of Washington 45th in the world for Law
46 University of Portsmouth 46th in the world for Law
47 University of Edinburgh 47th in the world for Law
48 Vanderbilt University 48th in the world for Law
49 University of Oslo 49th in the world for Law
50 Pennsylvania State University 50th in the world for Law
=51 City University of Hong Kong 51st in the world for Law
=51 Griffith University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Indiana University Bloomington 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of New South Wales 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of Sydney 51st in the world for Law
=51 Washington University in St. Louis 51st in the world for Law
=51 KU Leuven 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of Maryland, College Park 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of Wisconsin-Madison 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of Birmingham 51st in the world for Law
=51 Queen Mary University of London 51st in the world for Law
=51 University of Miami 51st in the world for Law
=51 Boston University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Tilburg University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Iowa State University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Maastricht University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Temple University 51st in the world for Law
=51 Cardiff University 51st in the world for Law
=76 University of Colorado Boulder 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Sheffield 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Texas at Austin 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Groningen 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Pittsburgh 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Connecticut 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Nottingham 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Southampton 76th in the world for Law
=76 Queensland University of Technology 76th in the world for Law
=76 Tel Aviv University 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of South Florida 76th in the world for Law
=76 University of Utah 76th in the world for Law
=76 University at Albany, State University of New York 76th in the world for Law
=101 Deakin University 101st in the world for Law
=101 Johns Hopkins University 101st in the world for Law
=101 McGill University 101st in the world for Law
=101 National University of Singapore 101st in the world for Law
=101 Swinburne University of Technology 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Manchester 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Queensland 101st in the world for Law
=101 Australian National University 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Copenhagen 101st in the world for Law
=101 Texas A&M University 101st in the world for Law
=101 Chinese University of Hong Kong 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of California, Davis 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Glasgow 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Wollongong 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Warwick 101st in the world for Law
=101 Ghent University 101st in the world for Law
=101 Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Montreal 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Bristol 101st in the world for Law
=101 Emory University 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Auckland 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Leeds 101st in the world for Law
=101 Newcastle University 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Turin 101st in the world for Law
=101 Boston College 101st in the world for Law
=101 Radboud University Nijmegen 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Helsinki 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Canterbury 101st in the world for Law
=101 University of Notre Dame 101st in the world for Law
=151 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 151st in the world for Law
=151 Princeton University 151st in the world for Law
=151 RMIT University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Alberta 151st in the world for Law
=151 Zhejiang University 151st in the world for Law
=151 La Trobe University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of British Columbia 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of California, San Francisco 151st in the world for Law
=151 Durham University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Arizona 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Florida 151st in the world for Law
=151 Brown University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of the Sunshine Coast 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Zurich 151st in the world for Law
=151 Trinity College Dublin 151st in the world for Law
=151 Lund University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Georgia 151st in the world for Law
=151 Virginia Tech 151st in the world for Law
=151 Bocconi University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Macau 151st in the world for Law
=151 Adelaide University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Nebraska–Lincoln 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Iowa 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Leicester 151st in the world for Law
=151 Stockholm University 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of Gothenburg 151st in the world for Law
=151 York University 151st in the world for Law
=151 The University of Texas at San Antonio 151st in the world for Law
=151 University of East Anglia 151st in the world for Law
=151 Singapore Management University 151st in the world for Law