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Loyola law rankings depend on which Loyola you mean, since three ABA-approved schools carry the name: Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles, Loyola University Chicago, and Loyola University New Orleans. In the U.S. News 2026-27 list Loyola University Chicago ranks tied 77th, while the positions of Loyola Marymount and Loyola New Orleans are published in that list, per U.S. News 2026-27 (via LSD.law). Rankings vary by publisher.
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.
Loyola law rankings vary for two reasons. First, three different ABA-approved schools share the Loyola name: Loyola Marymount (Loyola Law School, Los Angeles), Loyola University Chicago, and Loyola University New Orleans. Second, publishers rank schools differently. U.S. News is the most cited list, but outlets such as Above the Law weigh employment and cost more heavily, so a Loyola school's position can move depending on the source you read.
This table pairs each Loyola law school with its U.S. News position and the outcome and admissions figures that matter most to applicants. The rank column reflects the U.S. News 2026-27 edition, and the medians and outcomes come from each school's ABA disclosures.
Loyola law schoolU.S. News rank (2026-27)Median LSATEmployed at 10 monthsLocationLoyola Law School, Los AngelesSee U.S. News 2026-27 list163See ABA employment reportLos Angeles, CALoyola University Chicago77 (tie)161See ABA employment reportChicago, ILLoyola University New OrleansSee U.S. News 2026-27 listSee ABA 509 reportSee ABA employment reportNew Orleans, LA
Rankings are from the U.S. News 2026-27 Best Law Schools list (via LSD.law); median LSAT comes from each school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report. Loyola Marymount's current U.S. News rank, every figure for Loyola University New Orleans, and the graduate employment rates are not in the verified data used here; each is published in the U.S. News list and the school's ABA employment summary and Standard 509 disclosure at abarequireddisclosures.org.
The best-known law school ranking is published annually by U.S. News and World Report. It combines a peer reputation survey, a separate survey of practicing lawyers and judges, incoming class LSAT and GPA medians, graduate employment rates, bar passage, and per-student spending. Because U.S. News revises its formula regularly, the exact current weighting is published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology rather than captured in the verified data used here, so read the rank alongside the raw ABA 509 data.
Use the ranking to shortlist, then decide on what shapes a legal career: employment in the city where you want to work, cost after any scholarship, and each school's strongest practice areas. All three Loyola schools are regional, so their best placement is close to home. Compare your LSAT and GPA to each school's ABA 509 medians (Loyola Marymount reports a median LSAT of 163 and GPA of 3.74, and Loyola Chicago a median LSAT of 161, in their 2025 ABA Standard 509 reports) to judge your realistic odds.
Of the three, Loyola University Chicago is the one with a verified U.S. News 2026-27 rank, tied 77th; the current positions of Loyola Marymount and Loyola New Orleans are published in the U.S. News list. More useful than the internal order is which one sits in the city where you want to practice, since all three are regional schools whose strongest job placement is close to home.
The T14 is a nickname for the fourteen law schools that have consistently held the top U.S. News spots: Yale, Stanford, Chicago, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, NYU, Virginia, Berkeley, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Georgetown. They are grouped because they hire nationally rather than regionally. The exact order shifts each cycle; 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.
Most people label the T14 the best law schools; 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. For any individual applicant, the best school is the one where your LSAT and GPA meet the medians and that places graduates in your target market.
Law school rankings come from private publishers, chiefly U.S. News, rather than from the ABA. U.S. News converts reputation surveys, LSAT and GPA medians, employment and bar-passage outcomes, and spending into a single score and rank. The weighting is published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology and changes from cycle to cycle, which is why a school can move several spots year to year.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026