Law school profiles
Law School Profiles
Research framework reviewed August 30, 2026. Individual profiles use their own clearly labeled data periods. Prepared by the TLS Editorial Team from cited public sources. See our editorial policy and report a correction.
TLS law-school profiles help applicants compare admissions, cost, scholarships, employment, bar passage, programs, and geographic outcomes. The collection includes current Council-approved schools, provisionally approved schools, accurately labeled non-ABA schools, and historically useful pages for closed or merged institutions.
No single number determines whether a school is a good choice. Start with the full profile, confirm the reporting year beside every statistic, and compare likely net cost with the jobs and locations that matter to you.
Find a Law School
- Search by name: use the wiki search box for a current name, former name, abbreviation, or city.
- Browse alphabetically: use the complete canonical list below.
- Browse by jurisdiction: use a substantive state or territory guide where one has been editorially completed; do not rely on an automatically generated filter page as a comparison.
- Check a former name: former-name pages should redirect to the current canonical profile while the profile explains the name history.
- Research a closed or merged school: use the closed and historical directory.
The alphabetical list uses one recommended canonical title per current school. Former-name and merged predecessor pages are excluded from this list and belong in the redirect map or historical directory.
A · B · C · D · E · F · G · H · I · J · L · M · N · O · P · Q · R · S · T · U · V · W · Y
A
- Albany Law School
- Alexander Blewett III School of Law at the University of Montana
- American University Washington College of Law
- Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University
- Appalachian School of Law
- Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
- Ave Maria School of Law
B
- Barry University School of Law
- Baylor Law School
- Belmont University College of Law
- Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
- Boston College Law School
- Boston University School of Law
- Brooklyn Law School
C
- California Western School of Law
- Campbell University School of Law
- Capital University Law School
- Case Western Reserve University School of Law
- Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law
- Chapman University Dale E. Fowler School of Law
- Charleston School of Law
- Chicago-Kent College of Law
- City University of New York School of Law
- Cleveland State University College of Law
- College of Law - University of Cincinnati
- Columbia Law School
- Columbus School of Law
- Cooley Law School
- Cornell Law School
- Creighton School of Law
D
- DePaul University College of Law
- Drake University Law School
- Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
- Duke Law School
E
- Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University
- Elon University School of Law
- Emory University School of Law
F
- Faulkner University, Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
- Florida A&M University College of Law
- Florida International University College of Law
- Florida State University College of Law
- Fordham University School of Law
G
- Georgetown Law
- Georgia State University College of Law
- Golden Gate University School of Law — not ABA-approved; see profile for accreditation and bar-eligibility limits
- Gonzaga University School of Law
H
- Harvard Law School
- High Point University Kenneth F. Kahn School of Law — provisionally approved
- Howard University School of Law
I
J
- J. Reuben Clark Law School
- Jacksonville University College of Law — provisionally approved
L
- Levin College of Law
- Lewis & Clark Law School
- Liberty School of Law
- Lincoln Memorial University Duncan School of Law
- LMU Loyola Law School
- Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law
- Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
- LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center
M
- Marquette University Law School
- Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
- McGeorge School of Law
- Mercer University School of Law
- Michigan State University College of Law
- Mississippi College School of Law
- Mitchell Hamline School of Law
- Moritz College of Law
N
- New England Law | Boston
- New York Law School
- North Carolina Central University School of Law
- Northeastern University School of Law
- Northern Illinois University College of Law
- Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law
- Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
- Notre Dame Law School
- Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
- NYU School of Law
O
P
- Penn State Dickinson Law
- Pepperdine University Rick J. Caruso School of Law
- Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico
Q
R
- Regent University School of Law
- Robert H. McKinney School of Law
- Roger Williams University School of Law
S
- Saint Louis University School of Law
- Samford University Cumberland School of Law
- Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at Arizona State University
- Santa Clara University Law School
- Seattle University School of Law
- Seton Hall University School of Law
- SIU Simmons Law School
- SMU Dedman School of Law
- South Texas College of Law Houston
- Southern University Law Center
- Southwestern Law School
- St. John's University School of Law
- St. Mary's University School of Law
- St. Thomas University College of Law
- Stanford Law School
- Stetson University College of Law
- Suffolk University Law School
- Syracuse University College of Law
T
- Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law
- Texas A&M University School of Law
- Texas Tech University School of Law
- The George Washington University Law School
- The University of Akron School of Law
- The University of Alabama School of Law
- The University of Chicago Law School
- The University of Iowa College of Law
- The University of Toledo College of Law
- The University of Tulsa College of Law
- Thomas Jefferson School of Law — not ABA-approved; see profile for accreditation and bar-eligibility limits
- Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University
- Thurgood Marshall School of Law
- Touro University Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center
- Tulane University School of Law
U
- UALR William H. Bowen School of Law
- UCLA School of Law
- University at Buffalo School of Law
- University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
- University of Arkansas School of Law
- University of Baltimore School of Law
- University of California College of the Law, San Francisco
- University of California, Berkeley School of Law
- University of California, Davis School of Law
- University of California, Irvine School of Law
- University of Colorado Law School
- University of Connecticut School of Law
- University of Dayton School of Law
- University of Denver Sturm College of Law
- University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
- University of Georgia School of Law
- University of Houston Law Center
- University of Idaho College of Law
- University of Illinois Chicago School of Law
- University of Illinois College of Law at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Kansas School of Law
- University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law
- University of Maine School of Law
- University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
- University of Massachusetts School of Law-Dartmouth
- University of Miami School of Law
- University of Michigan Law School
- University of Minnesota Law School
- University of Mississippi School of Law
- University of Missouri - Kansas City School of Law
- University of Missouri School of Law
- University of Nebraska College of Law
- University of New Hampshire Franklin Pierce School of Law
- University of New Mexico School of Law
- University of North Carolina School of Law
- University of North Dakota School of Law
- University of North Texas Dallas College of Law
- University of Oklahoma College of Law
- University of Oregon School of Law
- University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law
- University of Puerto Rico
- University of Richmond School of Law
- University of San Diego, School of Law
- University of San Francisco School of Law
- University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
- University of South Dakota
- University of Southern California Gould School of Law
- University of St. Thomas School of Law
- University of Tennessee Winston College of Law
- University of Texas School of Law
- University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
- University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
- University of Virginia School of Law
- University of Washington School of Law
- University of Wisconsin Law School
- University of Wyoming College of Law
V
- Vanderbilt University Law School
- Vermont Law School (part of Vermont Law and Graduate School)
- Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
W
- Wake Forest University School of Law
- Washburn University School of Law
- Washington and Lee University School of Law
- Washington University School of Law
- Wayne State University Law School
- West Virginia University College of Law
- Western New England University School of Law
- Western State College of Law at Westcliff University
- Widener University Commonwealth Law School
- Widener University Delaware Law School
- Willamette University School of Law
- William & Mary Law School
- William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada Las Vegas
- William S. Richardson School of Law
- Wilmington University School of Law — provisionally approved
Y
How to Read the Profiles
Each rebuilt profile identifies its research date and the separate periods covered by admissions, tuition, scholarships, employment, and bar-passage data. These periods often differ because the source releases occur on different schedules. TLS does not relabel an older cohort with a newer year.
Before comparing schools, review:
- Data methodology for source and calculation rules;
- Admissions data definitions for medians, acceptance rate, and yield;
- Employment data definitions for job categories, denominators, and firm-size bands;
- Bar-passage data definitions for first-time and ultimate results;
- Rankings methodology and limitations;
- Scholarship and conditional-scholarship guide; and
- How to compare law-school offers.
What the Data Can—and Cannot—Tell You
Admissions percentiles describe an entering class; they are not admissions cutoffs. Employment tables describe a graduating class at a defined status date; they do not promise a job. Bar-passage figures describe groups of graduates and must be read with the number of takers and jurisdictions. Published tuition is not the same as net price, total cost, or eventual debt.
TLS calculations display the source numerator and denominator. When a material figure cannot be verified, the profile omits it or labels the limitation. Editorial analysis is identified as analysis rather than presented as institutional fact.
Compare Schools Responsibly
A useful comparison generally asks:
- What is the likely three-year net cost after a scholarship that the student can realistically retain?
- How many graduates obtain the type of work the student wants, using the full graduating class as the denominator?
- Where do graduates work, and does that geography match the student's target market?
- Is the program's accreditation and delivery format compatible with the student's licensing plans?
- What risks would make another offer preferable?
Peer comparisons should be based on genuine overlap in applicant pool, geography, price, programs, or employment markets—not on a desire to manufacture internal links.
Current, Historical, and Non-ABA Status
The directory distinguishes current Council-approved schools from provisionally approved schools, non-ABA programs, teach-outs, merged predecessors, and closed schools. Accreditation language is precise: a school or program is never described as ABA-approved unless the Council's current records support that statement.
Closed-school pages may remain searchable when they provide substantial historical value. A former-name or predecessor page that duplicates a current profile should redirect to the current canonical page, with the relevant history retained in the destination profile.
Recently Updated Profiles
This section should be populated automatically from the date of the last meaningful factual or editorial review, not from a formatting edit, import, template refresh, or automated timestamp. Display no more than 12 profiles and include the actual review date beside each link.
Sources, Editorial Standards, and Corrections
TLS prioritizes ABA required disclosures, accreditation records, state bar authorities, and official school materials. Secondary reporting may add context; forums and student commentary are labeled anecdotal and do not establish admissions, cost, employment, bar, or accreditation facts.
Read the source and update policy, the editorial policy, or the corrections policy. A school may point TLS to a better source, but it cannot purchase a factual change, favorable characterization, ranking treatment, or link.
