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Overall Rankings

Judging the Law Schools - 12th Edition

Access to Legal Education for All

By ranking according to first-year class size, first-year minority enrollment, and first-year minority enrollment percentage, schools are ranked on their ability to provide access to law school, particularly for minorities.

Cooley's Ranking:

• #1 in JD Minority Enrollment
• #1 in First-Year Minority Enrollment
• #1 in Total Enrollment
• #1 in First-year Matriculants

Prepare Students to Practice in Global Community

Over the past few years, both the profession and the law schools have recognized and emphasized the impact of globalization on nearly every aspect of American life. To reflect this reality, we have added two factors long-reported in the ABA-LSAC Official Guides, the enrollment of foreign national students and the percentage of foreign national students enrolled.

Cooley's Ranking:

• # 1 JD Foreign National Enrollment
• # 1 in Number of States in Which Graduates are Employed

Cost of attendance: Cooley keeps law school affordable.

We have always included rankings for comparative tuition, rankings for the percentage of students receiving grants and scholarships, and rankings for the median amount of the grants and scholarships awarded. We have introduced rankings that compare the affordability of schools based on the actual attendance costs for resident and non-resident students, using the weighted net tuition for an individual student. 

Cooley's Ranking:

• #1 in % of Full-time Students Receiving Grants

Non-Resident Affordability Compared to:

• All law schools - 19/196 (10th percentile)
• Private law schools - 6/117 (5th percentile)
• Public law schools - 14/80 (18th percentile)

Resident Affordability Compared to:

• All law schools - 71/196 (36th percentile)
• Private law schools - 6/117 (5th percentile)