If you pursue a degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #21 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in California to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of law. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 4,252 degrees in law annually.
Your choice of law school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Law School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Law Schools in California ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of law degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of California - Berkeley is a great choice for students interested in a degree in law. UC Berkeley is a very large public university located in the city of Berkeley. A Best Colleges rank of #14 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UC Berkeley is a great university overall.
There were roughly 359 law students who graduated with this degree at UC Berkeley in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat University of La Verne if you wish to pursue a degree in law. Located in the suburb of La Verne, ULV is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. This university ranks 78th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were about 74 law students who graduated with this degree at ULV in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in law needs to check out Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses. Humphreys University is a fairly small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Stockton. This university ranks 150th out of 161 colleges for overall quality in the state of California.
There were roughly 13 law students who graduated with this degree at Humphreys University in the most recent year we have data available.
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Notes and References
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).
Your choice of law school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Law School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
