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Boston College Law School is ranked 20th (tie) among U.S. law schools in the U.S. News 2026-27 edition, with a median LSAT of 168 and a median GPA of 3.83, according to the school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report. Based in Newton, Massachusetts, it draws applicants comparing its standing against similar schools.
By Ali Unar, JD candidate at Georgetown Law and founder of Lovare Institut. Last updated August 2026. Every figure on this page was verified in August 2026 against the sources listed below.
Boston College Law School is an ABA-approved law school in Newton, Massachusetts. Its current position in the U.S. News rankings, along with the admissions and outcome figures that matter most, is summarized below.
MetricValue (2026 cycle)U.S. News rank20th (tie)Median LSAT168Median GPA3.83Acceptance rate8.48%First-time bar passageSee the school's ABA 509 reportEmployment (JD-required, 10 months)See the school's ABA 509 report
The rank comes from the U.S. News 2026-27 Best Law Schools ranking; the median LSAT of 168, median GPA of 3.83, and acceptance rate of 8.48% come from Boston College Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report; first-time bar passage and 10-month employment are published in the school's ABA required disclosures.
A U.S. News rank reflects a weighted blend of reputation surveys, selectivity (median LSAT, median GPA, and acceptance rate), and graduate outcomes (first-time bar passage and employment). Because U.S. News revises those weights periodically and publishes them in its annual methodology, Boston College Law can shift a few spots between editions without any real change in its program.
Applicants weighing Boston College Law usually compare it with Boston University, Fordham, and Notre Dame. In the U.S. News 2026-27 ranking, Boston University is 24th (tie), Fordham 42nd (tie), and Notre Dame 20th (tie); the most useful comparison, though, is how your own LSAT and GPA line up against each school's medians, which appear in its ABA Standard 509 report.
Whether Boston College Law is a reach, target, or likely school depends entirely on your numbers. If your LSAT and GPA are at or above its medians, Boston College Law is a realistic target and a possible scholarship source; if they sit below both, treat it as a reach. Build a balanced list around it, and if you are close to its median LSAT, a focused prep plan can move you from reach to target.
The T14 are the fourteen schools that consistently top the U.S. News law rankings: Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Georgetown. Their order shifts slightly each year, but membership almost never changes, and the label signals hiring reach that is national rather than regional.
By reputation and outcomes the best U.S. law schools are the fourteen T14 programs, but the right answer is personal. A school that offers a large scholarship and places strongly in the city where you want to practice can beat a higher-ranked school that leaves you with more debt. In the U.S. News 2026-27 ranking, the leaders are Stanford, Chicago, and Yale.
Law school rankings, chiefly U.S. News, combine reputation surveys of academics and practitioners with hard numbers on admissions selectivity and graduate outcomes such as bar passage and jobs. Because the formula's weights change every few years, a school can move several spots without changing at all.
There is no fixed cutoff, but the practical target is Boston College Law's published medians. Boston College Law School reports a median LSAT of 168 and a median GPA of 3.83 in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report; being at or above the medians makes you competitive, and clearing the 75th percentile strengthens your case for merit aid.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026