U.S. News & World Report ranks KU Law in top 50 public law schools
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas has 11 graduate programs in the top 10 and 52 programs in the top 50 among public universities in the 2023 rankings from U.S. News & World Report, released today.
The University of Kansas School of Law ranks No. 36 among public law schools. Several law specialty areas ranked among the top 50 public law schools, including:
17. Dispute Resolution (Law)
33. Environmental Law
35. Constitutional Law
36. Full-Time Law
37. Contracts-Commercial Law
40. International Law
40. Business-Corporate Law
40. Legal Writing
43. Tax Law
46. Intellectual Property Law
47. Criminal Law
49. Trial Advocacy (Law)
KU Law is the top-ranked school in Kansas and the Kansas City region for full-time law. KU Law has the 23rd lowest average debt for 2021 J.D. graduates nationwide, according to this year's U.S. News rankings.
A full profile of KU Law's rankings for 2023 is available on the U.S. News website.
At the university level, KU’s local government management program retained its No. 1 ranking among all universities — a position it has held since 1998. KU’s special education program ranked first among public schools.
Last year, KU had nine programs in the top 10 and 50 programs in the top 50 nationally.
KU graduate programs ranked in the top 50 among public universities include:
1. Local Government Management
1. Special Education
3. Paleontology
5. Public Management and Leadership
6. Physical Therapy
6. Speech-Language Pathology
7. Education
9. Medicine - Primary Care
9. Occupational Therapy
10. Audiology
10. Urban Policy
11. Nursing-Midwifery
13. Petroleum Engineering
13. Educational Psychology
13. Public Affairs
14. Nursing-Anesthesia
14. Public Finance and Budgeting
15. Clinical Child Psychology
16. Family Medicine
17. Dispute Resolution (Law)
22. Social Work
23. Pharmacy
30. Clinical Psychology
31. Biostatistics
32. History
33. Psychology
33. Environmental Law
34. Aerospace Engineering
34. Medicine - Research
35. Constitutional Law
35. Fine Arts
36. Chemistry
36. Full-Time Law
37. Contracts-Commercial Law
40. Civil Engineering
40. English
40. International Law
40. Business-Corporate Law
40. Legal Writing
40. Sociology
41. Environmental Engineering
41. Mathematics
41. Political Science
42. Full-Time MBA
43. Tax Law
46. Intellectual Property Law
47. Economics
47. Criminal Law
49. Biology
49. Trial Advocacy (Law)
50. Earth Sciences
50. Chemical Engineering.
Read the KU News Service article about all of KU's graduate school rankings.