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Three ABA-approved law schools share the Loyola name: Loyola Law School Los Angeles (Loyola Marymount), Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Each holds a different U.S. News position: Loyola University Chicago sits at 77th (tie) in U.S. News 2026-27, while the Los Angeles and New Orleans schools fall outside Lovare's verified 2026-27 ranking set. Confirm which campus you mean before comparing.
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.
Three separate ABA-approved law schools use the Loyola name, so a single Loyola law ranking does not exist. They are Loyola Law School at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, and Loyola University New Orleans College of Law. Each is a distinct institution in a different city, with its own U.S. News rank and admissions profile.
The table lists the current U.S. News position and the two admissions medians that most affect your odds at each Loyola law school. Rankings are from U.S. News 2026-27 and the medians from each school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report.
Loyola law schoolU.S. News rank (2026-27)Median LSATMedian GPAMarketLoyola Law School, Los AngelesNot individually listed in Lovare's verified 2026-27 set1633.74Los Angeles and CaliforniaLoyola University Chicago School of Law77th (tie)1613.7Chicago and IllinoisLoyola University New Orleans College of LawNot individually listed in Lovare's verified 2026-27 setSee its 2025 ABA 509 reportSee its 2025 ABA 509 reportNew Orleans and Louisiana
Rankings from U.S. News 2026-27 (via LSD.law); Loyola Chicago and Loyola Marymount admissions medians from their 2025 ABA Standard 509 reports. Loyola New Orleans, and the exact U.S. News positions of the Los Angeles and New Orleans schools, are not in Lovare's verified reference set and appear in the U.S. News 2026-27 edition and each school's ABA Standard 509 disclosure.
Most law school rankings that people cite come from U.S. News and World Report, which scores schools on reputation surveys sent to academics and to practicing lawyers and judges, median LSAT and GPA, graduate employment, bar passage, and spending measures. The exact weights change from year to year and are published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology. The underlying numbers come from each school's ABA Standard 509 report and from LSAC.
Because the three Loyola law schools sit in Los Angeles, Chicago, and New Orleans, the ranking matters less than fit with where you want to practice. Compare your LSAT and GPA to each school's ABA 509 medians (Loyola Chicago posts a 161 median LSAT and 3.7 median GPA, and Loyola Marymount a 163 and 3.74, in their 2025 ABA Standard 509 reports; Loyola New Orleans reports its medians in the same disclosure), then weigh graduate employment in that city, scholarship offers, and each school's strongest practice areas. A regionally dominant Loyola can serve you better than a higher-ranked school far from your target market.
The T14 refers to the fourteen law schools that have effectively always ranked in the U.S. News top 14: Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, NYU, Virginia, Berkeley, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Georgetown. Because they place graduates nationally rather than regionally, they are grouped together. Their internal order changes yearly; in U.S. News 2026-27 it runs Stanford 1st, Chicago and Yale tied 2nd, Penn and Virginia tied 4th, Harvard 6th, Duke and NYU tied 7th, Columbia, Northwestern, and Michigan tied 9th, Cornell tied 13th, Berkeley tied 16th, and Georgetown tied 18th, per U.S. News 2026-27.
Each Loyola law school is ABA-approved and regionally respected, though none is a T14 school. Loyola in Los Angeles, Loyola Chicago, and Loyola New Orleans each place many graduates in their home markets. Whether one is right for you depends on its employment rate in your target city and how your numbers compare to its medians, such as Loyola Chicago's 161 median LSAT and 3.7 GPA and Loyola Marymount's 163 and 3.74, each reported with its employment outcomes in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report.
The schools usually called the best are the T14; in the U.S. News 2026-27 list the top five are Stanford 1st, Chicago and Yale tied 2nd, and Penn and Virginia tied 4th, per U.S. News 2026-27. The best school for you is the one where your LSAT and GPA are competitive and that places graduates in the market you want to work in.
Law school rankings are compiled by private publishers, mainly U.S. News, not by the ABA or any government body. U.S. News scores each school on reputation surveys, incoming LSAT and GPA medians, graduate employment and bar-passage rates, and per-student spending to produce the rank. The exact weights change periodically and are published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026