CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (UVA Today) – The University of Virginia School of Law has landed at No. 1 in two new rankings of the country’s law schools. In a new Princeton Review ranking, UVA Law reclaimed No. 1 spots in the Best Professors and Best Classroom Experience categories.
As reported in the 2024 rankings, the Law School is also No. 2 in Best Career Prospects, No. 2 in Best Quality of Life, No. 4 in Toughest Schools To Get Into and the No. 5 Best School for Federal Clerkships. UVA has ranked in the top five in each of these six categories for the past three years. The Law School has placed in the top five for Best Quality of Life, Best Classroom Experience and Best Professors for the past 10 years.
The ranking names the top 10 law schools in 14 categories based on The Princeton Review’s surveys of 18,400 students attending 168 law schools in the United States, and of administrators at the schools.
Above the Law
The school was also ranked No. 1 in the Above the Law website’s annual law school rankings.
The rankings, which focus on employment outcomes, draw from the latest American Bar Association employment data. The online blog also factored in law school debt and costs, and regional cost of living adjustments. UVA Law had the highest job placement rate in the country last year for permanent, full-time jobs that require passing the bar, with more than 97% of graduates from the Class of 2023 securing such positions within 10 months of graduation. The 2023 class also had the fifth-highest rate of graduates serving in federal clerkships, at 15.6%.
At nine months after graduation, when the American Bar Association collects its data, 99.3% of UVA Law’s 2023 graduates were employed and earning a median salary of $225,000.
