THE World University Rankings by Subject: Law

2026 edition, Law. Published by Times Higher Education.

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Recorded placements 252

Institutions the Index records in this table. A placement here is a placement anywhere: the Index reports each institution's best, whatever its scope.

Rank	Institution	Claim
1	Stanford University	1st in the world for Law
2	New York University	2nd in the world for Law
3	University of Cambridge	3rd in the world for Law
4	Columbia University	4th in the world for Law
5	University of Oxford	5th in the world for Law
6	Harvard University	6th in the world for Law
7	University of California, Berkeley	7th in the world for Law
8	University of Melbourne	8th in the world for Law
=9	University of Chicago	9th in the world for Law
=9	Yale University	9th in the world for Law
11	University College London	11th in the world for Law
12	Peking University	12th in the world for Law
13	London School of Economics and Political Science	13th in the world for Law
14	KU Leuven	14th in the world for Law
15	National University of Singapore	15th in the world for Law
16	Tsinghua University	16th in the world for Law
17	University of Edinburgh	17th in the world for Law
18	Leiden University	18th in the world for Law
=19	University of Amsterdam	19th in the world for Law
=19	Georgetown University	19th in the world for Law
21	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich	21st in the world for Law
22	University of California, Los Angeles	22nd in the world for Law
23	University of Toronto	23rd in the world for Law
=24	University of Michigan-Ann Arbor	24th in the world for Law
=24	Maastricht University	24th in the world for Law
26	King's College London	26th in the world for Law
=27	Shanghai Jiao Tong University	27th in the world for Law
=27	University of Hong Kong	27th in the world for Law
29	University of New South Wales	29th in the world for Law
30	Duke University	30th in the world for Law
31	Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin	31st in the world for Law
32	University of Bologna	32nd in the world for Law
33	McGill University	33rd in the world for Law
34	University of Oslo	34th in the world for Law
35	Tilburg University	35th in the world for Law
=36	University of Pennsylvania	36th in the world for Law
=36	University of Virginia	36th in the world for Law
38	Zhejiang University	38th in the world for Law
39	Australian National University	39th in the world for Law
40	Heidelberg University	40th in the world for Law
=41	City University of Hong Kong	41st in the world for Law
=41	Lund University	41st in the world for Law
43	University of British Columbia	43rd in the world for Law
44	Queen Mary University of London	44th in the world for Law
45	Cornell University	45th in the world for Law
=46	University of Sydney	46th in the world for Law
=46	University of Vienna	46th in the world for Law
48	Ghent University	48th in the world for Law
49	Wuhan University	49th in the world for Law
50	University of Copenhagen	50th in the world for Law
51	University of Tokyo	51st in the world for Law
=52	University of Sao Paulo	52nd in the world for Law
=52	Durham University	52nd in the world for Law
54	University of Bristol	54th in the world for Law
55	Tongji University	55th in the world for Law
=56	University of Texas at Austin	56th in the world for Law
=56	Monash University	56th in the world for Law
58	Northwestern University	58th in the world for Law
=59	University of Groningen	59th in the world for Law
=59	Chinese University of Hong Kong	59th in the world for Law
61	Sapienza University of Rome	61st in the world for Law
62	Queensland University of Technology	62nd in the world for Law
=63	University of Glasgow	63rd in the world for Law
=63	Freie Universität Berlin	63rd in the world for Law
65	York University	65th in the world for Law
66	Universidad Complutense de Madrid	66th in the world for Law
67	Boston University	67th in the world for Law
68	University of Surrey	68th in the world for Law
70	University of Notre Dame	70th in the world for Law
73	Universität Hamburg	73rd in the world for Law
74	Universitat Pompeu Fabra	74th in the world for Law
75	University of Helsinki	75th in the world for Law
77	Fudan University	77th in the world for Law
78	University of Freiburg	78th in the world for Law
80	University of Ottawa	80th in the world for Law
81	University of Nottingham	81st in the world for Law
82	Stockholm University	82nd in the world for Law
83	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	83rd in the world for Law
85	Dalhousie University	85th in the world for Law
87	University of Warwick	87th in the world for Law
88	University of Leeds	88th in the world for Law
=89	University of Technology Sydney	89th in the world for Law
=89	University of California, Davis	89th in the world for Law
92	University of Manchester	92nd in the world for Law
=93	University of Birmingham	93rd in the world for Law
=93	Universitat de Barcelona	93rd in the world for Law
98	University of Geneva	98th in the world for Law
=99	National University of Malaysia	99th in the world for Law
=99	George Mason University	99th in the world for Law
=101	University of Washington	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Queensland	101st in the world for Law
=101	Beijing Institute of Technology	101st in the world for Law
=101	Erasmus University Rotterdam	101st in the world for Law
=101	Qingdao University	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Florida	101st in the world for Law
=101	American University	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Southern California	101st in the world for Law
=101	George Washington University	101st in the world for Law
=101	National Autonomous University of Mexico	101st in the world for Law
=101	Trinity College Dublin	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of California, Irvine	101st in the world for Law
=101	University College Dublin	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Antwerp	101st in the world for Law
=101	Tel Aviv University	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Göttingen	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Liverpool	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Gothenburg	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Victoria	101st in the world for Law
=101	University of Cape Town	101st in the world for Law
=101	Universitat de València	101st in the world for Law
=126	Griffith University	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Colorado Boulder	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Sheffield	126th in the world for Law
=126	Qatar University	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Wollongong	126th in the world for Law
=126	Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam	126th in the world for Law
=126	Vanderbilt University	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Montreal	126th in the world for Law
=126	Adelaide University	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Johannesburg	126th in the world for Law
=126	Radboud University Nijmegen	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Bonn	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Trento	126th in the world for Law
=126	Cardiff University	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Sussex	126th in the world for Law
=126	University of Pretoria	126th in the world for Law
=151	Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile	151st in the world for Law
=151	Southeast University	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Alberta	151st in the world for Law
=151	Aarhus University	151st in the world for Law
=151	La Trobe University	151st in the world for Law
=151	Xi'an Jiaotong University	151st in the world for Law
=151	Seoul National University	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Lisbon	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Wisconsin-Madison	151st in the world for Law
=151	Macquarie University	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Turin	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Tasmania	151st in the world for Law
=151	Queen's University Belfast	151st in the world for Law
=151	University of Portsmouth	151st in the world for Law
=176	Deakin University	176th in the world for Law
=176	Washington University in St. Louis	176th in the world for Law
=176	Curtin University	176th in the world for Law
=176	Texas A&M University	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill	176th in the world for Law
=176	Michigan State University	176th in the world for Law
=176	Xiamen University	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Connecticut	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Southampton	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Auckland	176th in the world for Law
=176	Newcastle University	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Sharjah	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Strathclyde	176th in the world for Law
=176	Western University	176th in the world for Law
=176	Uppsala University	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Bergen	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Haifa	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Eastern Finland	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of East Anglia	176th in the world for Law
=176	University of Florence	176th in the world for Law
=201	Central South University	201st in the world for Law
=201	Sichuan University	201st in the world for Law
=201	Swinburne University of Technology	201st in the world for Law
=201	Flinders University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University College Cork	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Exeter	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Arizona	201st in the world for Law
=201	Universitas Gadjah Mada	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Minnesota	201st in the world for Law
=201	Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Bremen	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Milan	201st in the world for Law
=201	Emory University	201st in the world for Law
=201	Florida State University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Miami	201st in the world for Law
=201	Brunel University of London	201st in the world for Law
=201	Shandong University	201st in the world for Law
=201	Boston College	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Macau	201st in the world for Law
=201	Peoples' Friendship University of Russia	201st in the world for Law
=201	Syracuse University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Otago	201st in the world for Law
=201	Temple University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Leicester	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Canterbury	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Calgary	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Illinois Chicago	201st in the world for Law
=201	Lancaster University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Utah	201st in the world for Law
=201	Sebelas Maret University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of Padua	201st in the world for Law
=201	Universidade do Porto	201st in the world for Law
=201	Indiana University	201st in the world for Law
=201	University of International Business and Economics	201st in the world for Law
=251	Ocean University of China	251st in the world for Law
=251	Western Sydney University	251st in the world for Law
=251	Nottingham Trent University	251st in the world for Law
=251	Université Paris-Saclay	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Newcastle	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Bern	251st in the world for Law
=251	Sun Yat-sen University	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Reading	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Saskatchewan	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Western Australia	251st in the world for Law
=251	Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina	251st in the world for Law
=251	University at Buffalo, State University of New York	251st in the world for Law
=251	Aalborg University	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Iowa	251st in the world for Law
=251	Georgia State University	251st in the world for Law
=251	University of Turku	251st in the world for Law
=251	Drexel University	251st in the world for Law
=251	Université de Toulouse	251st in the world for Law
=251	Universidade de Santiago de Compostela	251st in the world for Law
=251	William & Mary	251st in the world for Law
=251	Royal Holloway University of London	251st in the world for Law
=301	Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Chile	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Naples Federico II	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul	301st in the world for Law
=301	Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Houston	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Indonesia	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidade de Brasília	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidade Federal de Pernambuco	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Nebraska–Lincoln	301st in the world for Law
=301	Adolfo Ibáñez University	301st in the world for Law
=301	Liverpool John Moores University	301st in the world for Law
=301	Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Nevada, Las Vegas	301st in the world for Law
=301	Diponegoro University	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidade de Vigo	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Pisa	301st in the world for Law
=301	State University of Semarang	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidad de Los Andes, Chile	301st in the world for Law
=301	Austral University of Chile	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Córdoba	301st in the world for Law
=301	The Open University	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Szeged	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Zagreb	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidad Diego Portales	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universitas Airlangga	301st in the world for Law
=301	Manchester Metropolitan University	301st in the world for Law
=301	National and Kapodistrian University of Athens	301st in the world for Law
=301	University of Tehran	301st in the world for Law
=301	Universidad de Zaragoza	301st in the world for Law
=401	Pontificia Universidad Javeriana	401st in the world for Law
=401	Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina	401st in the world for Law
=401	Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná	401st in the world for Law
=401	Saarland University	401st in the world for Law
=401	Universidad de Talca	401st in the world for Law
=401	Universidade Federal Fluminense	401st in the world for Law