Every year, U.S. News and World Report ranks the best grad schools in 10 different fields of study. Their 2008 report ranks the following ten graduate law schools as the best in the country:

1. Yale University (CT)
2. Harvard University (MA)
3. Stanford University (CA)
4. New York University
5. Columbia University (NY)
6. University of Chicago
7. University of Pennsylvania
8. University of California—Berkeley
9. University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
10. Duke University (NC)

Their ranking consider many factors, including peer assessment score, assessment score by lawyers and judges, average student GPA, average LSAT score, acceptance rate, student-teacher ratio, percentage of graduates employed at graduation, and BAR passage rate in both the student’s state and jurisdiction.