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🇺🇸 Best Law Programs in United States by ROI
Ranked by ROI score — net salary after rent and living costs, weighted by graduation rate, relative to total degree tuition. Salary figures are median graduate earnings from government data (2026).
| # | University | ROI | Salary ($) | Payback | Tuition ($/yr) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | University of Chicago Law. | 38.0 | $80,953 | 3 yrs | $41,608 |
| 2 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Law. | 33.4 | $66,046 | 3 yrs | $36,786 |
| 3 | Stanford University Law. | 32.6 | $80,456 | 3 yrs | $38,660 |
| 4 | Columbia University in the City of New York Law. | 25.5 | $85,315 | 4 yrs | $60,452 |
| 5 | University of California-Berkeley Law. | 25.4 | $67,246 | 4 yrs | $37,747 |
| 6 | Harvard University Law. | 25.4 | $78,040 | 4 yrs | $53,385 |
| 7 | University of Virginia-Main Campus Law. | 22.1 | $76,584 | 4 yrs | $60,382 |
| 8 | Vanderbilt University Law. | 21.2 | $53,961 | 4 yrs | $44,369 |
| 9 | University of Pennsylvania Law. | 20.6 | $83,600 | 5 yrs | $80,357 |
| 10 | The University of Texas at Austin Law. | 20.2 | $67,376 | 4 yrs | $55,600 |
| 11 | Northwestern University Law. | 19.3 | $80,698 | 5 yrs | $81,668 |
| 12 | Duke University Law. | 18.8 | $79,342 | 5 yrs | $82,914 |
| 13 | Cornell University Law. | 18.0 | $81,593 | 5 yrs | $80,332 |
| 14 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Law. | 17.8 | $67,376 | 4 yrs | $53,623 |
| 15 | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Law. | 15.8 | $67,376 | 3 yrs | $38,469 |
| 16 | University of California-Los Angeles Law. | 14.3 | $47,732 | 7 yrs | $35,134 |
| 17 | Yale University Law. | 13.9 | $62,319 | 7 yrs | $66,576 |
| 18 | New York University Law. | 13.1 | $82,465 | 7 yrs | $103,740 |
| 19 | University of Detroit Mercy Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other. | 12.6 | $45,058 | 5 yrs | $42,650 |
| 20 | Saint Louis University Law. | 11.3 | $50,869 | 7 yrs | $68,314 |
| 21 | University of California-Irvine Law. | 11.0 | $46,237 | 8 yrs | $39,903 |
| 22 | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Law. | 10.8 | $35,022 | 8 yrs | $40,194 |
| 23 | Ohio Northern University Law. | 10.1 | $50,869 | 7 yrs | $68,538 |
| 24 | Washington University in St Louis Law. | 10.0 | $38,116 | 10 yrs | $61,001 |
| 25 | University of Georgia Law. | 9.0 | $30,240 | 10 yrs | $39,021 |