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St. John's University School of Law, in Queens, New York, is a regionally strong school whose current U.S. News 2026-27 position is tied 62nd. Known for its New York bar placement and part-time evening option, its class medians are a 164 LSAT and 3.81 GPA, per 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 University School of Law, based in Queens, New York, holds a current U.S. News 2026-27 rank tied at 62nd, per U.S. News 2026-27. It is a regional school, strongest in the New York City legal market, and it offers both full-time and part-time evening tracks. For most applicants, its New York employment and bar-passage record carry more weight than the exact national number.
The table places St. John's alongside other ABA-approved law schools in the New York City area so you can compare rank and outcomes. Ranks reflect the U.S. News 2026-27 edition, and median LSAT comes from each school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report.
RankLaw schoolMedian LSATEmployed at 10 months62 (tie)St. John's University School of Law164See ABA employment report42 (tie)Fordham University School of Law168See ABA employment report105 (tie)Brooklyn Law School161See ABA employment report
Ranks are from the U.S. News 2026-27 Best Law Schools list (via LSD.law); median LSAT is from each school's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report. Fordham and Brooklyn Law School are shown as New York City-area peers. Graduate employment rates for all three are not in the verified data used here and are published in each school's ABA employment summary.
St. John's position, like every U.S. News rank, reflects reputation surveys of academics and of lawyers and judges, incoming LSAT and GPA medians, graduate employment, bar passage, and spending measures. U.S. News changes the weights periodically, and the exact current weights are published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology rather than captured in the verified data used here. St. John's own admissions and outcome numbers come from its ABA Standard 509 report.
Choose St. John's if you want to practice in the New York area and the numbers work for you. Compare your LSAT and GPA to its medians (a 164 LSAT and 3.81 GPA in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report), weigh its bar-passage-required employment rate against your likely debt, and factor in scholarship offers. A part-time evening spot can also let you keep working while you earn the degree.
St. John's is selective but far more accessible than a T14 school. Your odds depend on how your LSAT and GPA compare to its published medians (a median LSAT of 164, a median GPA of 3.81, and a 23.05% acceptance rate in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 report). Applicants at or above both medians are admitted at high rates and often receive scholarship offers, while those below both face longer odds.
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. For most applicants, the best school is instead the one where your LSAT and GPA are competitive and that places graduates in your target city.
Law school rankings come from private publishers, chiefly U.S. News, not from the ABA. U.S. News turns reputation surveys, LSAT and GPA medians, employment and bar-passage outcomes, and per-student spending into one score and rank. The weighting is published in the U.S. News Best Law Schools methodology and revised from cycle to cycle, so a school can move several places year to year.
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
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