Pre-Law is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #576 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Pre-Law Schools ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 613 degrees in pre-law to qualified students.
Your choice of pre-law school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for pre-law schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Pre-Law Schools list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the pre-law degree levels they offer.
Every student who is interested in pre-law needs to look into Michigan State University. Michigan State is a fairly large public university located in the city of East Lansing. A Best Colleges rank of #54 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Michigan State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 110 pre-law students who graduated with this degree at Michigan State in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Liberty University if you want to pursue a degree in pre-law. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Lynchburg. This university ranks 11th out of 57 colleges for overall quality in the state of Virginia.
There were about 123 pre-law students who graduated with this degree at Liberty University in the most recent data year.
National University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in pre-law. National University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of San Diego. This university ranks 37th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 10 pre-law students who graduated with this degree at National University in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
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Your choice of pre-law school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for pre-law schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
