Largest law schools in Massachusetts by degrees awarded
Harvard University ranks first with 603 law degrees in 2024–25, according to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection.
8 law schools in Massachusetts awarded 2,090 law degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 3rd of the 49 states and DC with a law school. Harvard University awarded the most, 603.
Law degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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| Rank | Name | law degrees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harvard University | 603 |
| 2 | Suffolk University | 487 |
| 3 | New England Law-Boston | 327 |
| 4 | Boston University | 215 |
| 5 | Boston College | 212 |
| 6 | University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth | 99 |
| 7 | Western New England University | 85 |
| 8 | Massachusetts School of Law | 62 |
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 Massachusetts in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
- The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.
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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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