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St. John's law refers to St. John's University School of Law in Queens, New York (sometimes written without the apostrophe as St John). In the U.S. News 2026-27 rankings it is tied 62nd, with class medians of a 164 LSAT and 3.81 GPA, according to U.S. News 2026-27 (via LSD.law) and St. John'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.
St. John's law is St. John's University School of Law in Queens, New York, often searched without the apostrophe as St John. Its current U.S. News 2026-27 position is tied 62nd, per U.S. News 2026-27. St. John's is a regionally focused school whose graduates concentrate in the New York metropolitan market, so its New York placement and bar-passage record matter more to most applicants than its national number.
The table lists the figures that most affect your admission odds and career outcomes at St. John's. The LSAT, GPA, and acceptance figures come from the school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report.
MetricFigure (2025 cycle)SourceU.S. News rank62 (tie)U.S. NewsMedian LSAT164ABA 509Median GPA3.81ABA 509Acceptance rate23.05%ABA 509Employed at 10 months, bar-passage-requiredSee ABA employment reportABAFirst-time bar passageSee ABA 509 reportABA 509
The rank is from the U.S. News 2026-27 Best Law Schools list (via LSD.law); LSAT, GPA, and acceptance are from St. John's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report. The employment rate and first-time bar passage are not in the verified data used here and are published in St. John's ABA employment summary and Standard 509 report.
The best-known law school ranking is published annually by U.S. News and World Report. It combines a peer reputation survey, a survey of practicing lawyers and judges, incoming LSAT and GPA medians, graduate employment, 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 it beside St. John's raw ABA 509 data.
St. John's is a strong option if you intend to practice in New York, where regional schools place best. Weigh its employment rate in bar-passage-required jobs, its bar-passage rate, and any scholarship against your total cost, each of which is published in St. John's ABA employment summary and 2025 Standard 509 report. Then compare your LSAT and GPA to its medians of 164 and 3.81 to judge both your odds and your scholarship potential.
St. John's University School of Law is ABA-approved and well regarded within the New York market, though it is not a T14 school. Its value depends on its employment rate in bar-passage-required jobs, its New York bar-passage record, and how your LSAT and GPA compare to its medians. St. John's reports a median LSAT of 164, a median GPA of 3.81, and a 23.05% acceptance rate in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report, with employment and bar-passage figures in its ABA disclosures. For New York-bound applicants, it can be a practical choice.
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. They hire nationally rather than regionally, which is why they are grouped. 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.
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, though, is the one where your LSAT and GPA are competitive and that places graduates in the state and practice area you want.
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