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#Top Law School Rankings From US News - 7Sage lsat

Law School Ranking Acronyms: HYS, CCN, T14

If you've talked to other prelaw students about law school ranking you will have definitely run into the obscure and cryptic law school acronyms: HYS, CCN, and T14.

What do they mean? Glad you asked.

Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, and Stanford Law School have occupied the top three spots for over a decade. Together, they are called HYS .

The next three spots are perennial filled by the CCN schools: Columbia Law School, Chicago Law School, and NYU Law School.

T14 refers to the top 14 law schools. They are a very consistent group with only small ranking changes over the years - typically schools move within the T14 rather than outside the T14. The only school to move into the T14 in the chart is U of T Austin, when it tied for 14th with Georgetown in 2011, before moving back out of the T14 in 2012.

The T14 schools are:

• Yale Law School (always #1)
• Harvard Law School (#2-3)
• Stanford Law School (#2-3)
• Columbia Law School (#4)
• Chicago Law School (#4-5)
• NYU Law School (#5-6)
• University of Pennsylvania Law School (#7-8)
• University of Virginia Law School (#7-10)
• University of California Berkeley Boalt Law School (#6-9)
• Duke Law School (#10-11)
• University of Michigan Ann Arbor Law School (#7-10)
• Northwestern Law School (#10-12)
• Cornell Law School (#13-14)
• Georgetown Law School (#13-14)

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