Largest law schools by degrees awarded
206 law schools in the fifty states and DC awarded 36,426 law degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count. Georgetown University awarded the most, 703.
Law degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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Puerto Rico and the other territories are listed beneath the ranking with their degrees and no national rank, as every ranking on this hub sets them apart from the fifty states and DC.
Law schools by state
49 of the fifty states and DC have at least one, ranked by the law degrees their law schools awarded; each links to its own ranking. 2 have none in NCES’s file: Alaska and Delaware.
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| Rank | State | Law schools |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 15 |
| 2 | California | 29 |
| 3 | Massachusetts | 8 |
| 4 | District of Columbia | 6 |
| 5 | Florida | 11 |
| 6 | Texas | 10 |
| 7 | Illinois | 9 |
| 8 | Pennsylvania | 8 |
| 9 | Virginia | 8 |
| 10 | Ohio | 9 |
| 11 | North Carolina | 6 |
| 12 | Michigan | 5 |
| 13 | Georgia | 5 |
| 14 | Louisiana | 4 |
| 15 | Minnesota | 3 |
| 16 | Missouri | 4 |
| 17 | Indiana | 4 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 5 |
| 19 | Washington | 3 |
| 20 | New Jersey | 3 |
| 21 | Connecticut | 3 |
| 22 | Colorado | 3 |
| 23 | Wisconsin | 2 |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 3 |
| 25 | Maryland | 2 |
| 26 | South Carolina | 2 |
| 27 | Oregon | 3 |
| 28 | Arizona | 2 |
| 29 | Alabama | 3 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 3 |
| 31 | Mississippi | 2 |
| 32 | Iowa | 2 |
| 33 | Nebraska | 2 |
| 34 | Arkansas | 2 |
| 35 | Kansas | 2 |
| 36 | Utah | 2 |
| 37 | New Hampshire | 1 |
| 38 | Rhode Island | 1 |
| 39 | Idaho | 1 |
| 40 | Vermont | 1 |
| 41 | Nevada | 1 |
| 42 | New Mexico | 1 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 1 |
| 44 | West Virginia | 1 |
| 45 | Maine | 1 |
| 46 | Montana | 1 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 1 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 1 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 1 |
| Alaska | None | |
| Delaware | None |
What this data cannot show
- A law school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 22.0101, Law, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- Every institution in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
Related
Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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