Rankings
Ever since U.S. News & World Report began ranking law schools in 1987, Columbia Law has appeared in the Top 5 each year, an honor shared only with Yale, Harvard, and Stanford. U.S. News & World Report consistently places Columbia Law among the top four law schools (for academic reputation and overall national standing). Forbes Magazine ranks Columbia Law #1 for highest earning law graduates and U.S. News and World Report ranks Columbia Law #4 in its 2011 Law Firm Recruiters' Ranking of Best Law Schools.
For the past several years (2005–2010), Professor Brian Leiter's law school rankings ranked Columbia #3 for student numerical quality (average LSAT/GPA), surpassed only by Yale and Harvard, and also ranked Columbia #1 (for the years 2006 through 2009) for job placement at the nation's "most prestigious" law firms. Columbia ranked #1 in The National Law Journal survey of "Go-To Law Schools" two years in a row (2007, 2008) for having the highest percentage of graduates hired by the nation's top 250 law firms (#2 in 2009; #3 in 2010;#3 in 2011).
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