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Boston University School of Law, located in Boston, Massachusetts, carries a U.S. News 2026-27 rank of 24th (tie). Applicants searching 'bu law ranking' usually want that rank, its median LSAT of 170, and its acceptance rate of 12.08%, all drawn from the school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report.
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 University School of Law is an ABA-approved law school in Boston, 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 rank24th (tie)Median LSAT170Median GPASee the school's ABA 509 reportAcceptance rate12.08%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 170 and the 12.08% acceptance rate come from Boston University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report; its median GPA, first-time bar passage, and 10-month employment are published in that report and 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, BU Law can shift a few spots between editions without any real change in its program.
Applicants weighing BU Law usually compare it with Boston College, Fordham, and George Washington. In the U.S. News 2026-27 ranking, Boston College is 20th (tie), George Washington 26th (tie), and Fordham 42nd (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 BU Law is a reach, target, or likely school depends entirely on your numbers. If your LSAT and GPA are at or above its medians, BU 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 refers to fourteen law schools that have effectively always held the top U.S. News spots: Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Georgetown. Because elite firms, clerkships, and national markets recruit heavily from this group, the boundary matters more than a school's exact position within it.
'Best' depends on your goals, but by U.S. News the strongest law schools are the T14, with Stanford, Chicago, and Yale usually at the top. For most applicants the practical best choice balances a school's rank against scholarship money, the market where its graduates get hired, and bar-passage and employment rates. In the U.S. News 2026-27 ranking, Stanford is 1st, with Chicago and Yale tied at 2nd.
U.S. News ranks law schools with a weighted formula that blends peer and lawyer reputation surveys, selectivity measures like median LSAT and GPA, and outcome measures like bar passage and employment. The exact weights are revised periodically, so treat the ordering as one input, not a verdict.
There is no fixed cutoff, but the practical target is BU Law's published medians. Boston University School of Law reports a median LSAT of 170 in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report, along with its median GPA and 25th and 75th percentiles; being at or above the median makes you competitive, and clearing the 75th percentile strengthens your case for merit aid.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026