The 2024 U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools ranking has been announced three days ago on April 9, 2024. This year’s ranking came as a surprise to many, since it was riddled with ties and a few unusual leaps.

Similar to the last year’s ranking, Stanford Law School and Yale Law School came out on top, but it had a twist: the evaluators decided that these two were in a tie. The University of Chicago Law School was selected as the third following the top two.

The well-established top 14 schools (T14 so to speak) had a dramatic shift this year. For example four schools share a tie for the fourth place. Meanwhile, the New York University School of Law slid down four places to the ninth place and had a tie with two other schools.