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Largest law programs in the United States
U.S. law programs, ranked by awards conferred in 2024, the latest IPEDS completions year on file. At least 5 schools must offer the program for this list to exist.
| Rank | School | City | Sector | Awards conferred |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Georgetown University | Washington | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 664 |
| 2 | Harvard University | Cambridge | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 622 |
| 3 | George Washington University | Washington | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 551 |
| 4 | New York University | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 523 |
| 5 | Columbia University in the City of New York | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 523 |
| 6 | Fordham University | Bronx | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 455 |
| 7 | The University of Texas at Austin | Austin | Public, 4-year | 411 |
| 8 | University of Miami | Coral Gables | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 409 |
| 9 | Mitchell Hamline School of Law | Saint Paul | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 403 |
| 10 | Brooklyn Law School | Brooklyn | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 400 |
| 11 | Suffolk University | Boston | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 394 |
| 12 | American University | Washington | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 378 |
| 13 | University of California-Los Angeles | Los Angeles | Public, 4-year | 372 |
| 14 | University of California College of the Law-San Francisco | San Francisco | Public, 4-year | 369 |
| 15 | Loyola University Chicago | Chicago | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 351 |
| 16 | New York Law School | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 345 |
| 17 | Boston College | Chestnut Hill | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 341 |
| 18 | Loyola Marymount University | Los Angeles | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 339 |
| 19 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | Ann Arbor | Public, 4-year | 323 |
| 20 | Seton Hall University | South Orange | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 314 |
| 21 | Yeshiva University | New York | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 311 |
| 22 | New England Law-Boston | Boston | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 306 |
| 23 | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia | Private nonprofit, 4-year | 305 |
| 24 | University of Illinois Chicago | Chicago | Public, 4-year | 301 |
| 25 | University of Virginia-Main Campus | Charlottesville | Public, 4-year | 298 |
Completions counts total awards conferred, summed across every credential level, from IPEDS.
How to read this. A larger school naturally confers more awards in a common program; this counts total completions, not selectivity. A campus that is part of one multi-campus system is shown as a single row when more than two of its campuses would otherwise appear.
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