Rankings
Seton Hall University School of Law is consistently ranked amongst the top 100 law schools in the United States. In 2009 and 2010, Super Lawyers U.S. law school rankings ranked Seton Hall School of Law 40th among the top 180 law schools. In 2011, The National Law Journal ranked Seton Hall School of Law 33rd in its annual survey of the law schools that NLJ 250 law firms relied on the most to fill their first-year associate classes. Seton Hall Law School placed 49 graduates in positions at top 250 firms, one more than Notre Dame Law School.
In 2012, LawSchoolTransparency.com developed a data clearinghouse for law school employment figures. Taking data from U.S. News and World Report and the American Bar Association, scores were developed to reflect employment outcomes, salaries, and student debt loads, essentially creating a ranking based solely on employment prospects. Seton Hall School of Law received a 70% employment score, ranking 38th in the country. In the greater New York City area, Seton Hall placed 3rd in employment numbers behind New York University Law School and Columbia Law School. Seton Hall placed 6th when factoring all law schools in the states of New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania. Compared to all law schools in the greater northeast (Washington D.C. to Maine) Seton Hall School of Law placed 8th behind Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Columbia Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, New York University School of Law, Cornell Law School, George Washington Law School and Boston College Law School.
The National Law Journal ranked Seton Hall Law 35th for associates who were promoted to partner within the top 250 firms. Based on percentage of graduates employed in the highly coveted federal judicial clerkships, in 2011 U.S. News & World Report ranked Seton Hall Law 29th among all law schools. Based on the number of practicing attorneys across the country who are selected as Super Lawyers, in 2010, the last year tallied, Seton Hall Law was ranked 40th in the nation.
In 2012, U.S. News and World Report ranked the school 69th in the nation. The school's health law program is consistently ranked among the top ten health law programs in the country and is currently ranked 5th by US News & World Report. Seton Hall's appellate advocacy program was ranked 11th in the nation by lawschooladvocacy.com in 2011. According to U.S. News and World Report, Seton Hall is the highest ranked law school in the state of New Jersey and the fifth highest ranked law school in the greater New York City area.
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