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As of the U.S. News 2026-27 edition, Campbell University School of Law holds a rank of 131st (tie) among ABA-approved law schools. The school, located in Raleigh, North Carolina, reports a median LSAT of 156 and a median GPA of 3.51 in its latest 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.
Campbell University School of Law is an ABA-approved law school in Raleigh, North Carolina. 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 rank131st (tie)Median LSAT156Median GPA3.51Acceptance rate50.68%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 156, median GPA of 3.51, and acceptance rate of 50.68% come from Campbell University School of Law'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, Campbell Law can shift a few spots between editions without any real change in its program.
Applicants weighing Campbell Law usually compare it with Elon University School of Law, North Carolina Central, and Wake Forest. In the U.S. News 2026-27 ranking, Wake Forest is 30th (tie) and Elon 144th (tie); North Carolina Central is listed by U.S. News as Rank Not Published, so compare medians and outcomes from each school's ABA Standard 509 report.
Whether Campbell Law is a reach, target, or likely school depends entirely on your numbers. If your LSAT and GPA are at or above its medians, Campbell 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.
T14 means the fourteen highest-ranked law schools in U.S. News, a tier whose members rarely move: Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Chicago, Columbia, NYU, Penn, Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Georgetown. The term persists because employment outcomes step down noticeably once you look past this group, making the cutoff meaningful.
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 Campbell Law's published medians. Campbell University School of Law reports a median LSAT of 156 and a median GPA of 3.51 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