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Top 10 Law Schools for Business Law
In 2014, Law Street Media released its first set of law school rankings, in response to the changing legal education industry. Law Street Specialty Rankings are a detailed resource for prospective law students as they consider the many law schools across the country. You'll notice some differences this year, as we return to the categories we first ranked in 2014. This year, we've changed the way we do our methodology slightly, to reflect feedback from our readers and the law school community. We've also redesigned our look, to make it easier to navigate and compare various schools. But as always, Law Street Specialty Rankings are built to blend the quantitative and qualitative in a way that accurately highlights the top law schools based on specialty programs.
This year's law school specialty rankings were compiled by Anneliese Mahoney, Alexis Evans, Celia Heudebourg, Gabe Fernandez, James Levinson, Josh Schmidt, and Marcus Dieterle.
Jobs: 18/20
Northwestern Law students are well-positioned to find jobs after graduation. Additionally, Northwestern offers excellent hands-on experiences for its students, including some unique opportunities to work on business law issues with small businesses and start-ups through the Donald Pritzker Entrepreneurship Law Center.
Classes: 19/25
Northwestern offers a Business Enterprise concentration, which sets interested students up to take a number of courses that focus on business law. Some unique elective offerings include “Financing the Entrepreneurial Venture” and “Economic Analysis of the Law.”
Networking: 14/15
Northwestern holds an annual entrepreneurship law conference during which students can network with entrepreneurs and other business law figures.
Extracurriculars: 12/15
Northwestern Law offers a few unique extracurriculars. The Journal of International Law and Business looks at the field from a global perspective and analyzes worldwide business trends. There’s also the Bankruptcy Law Group.
Location: 15/15
Northwestern University’s location in Chicago helped the school earn a perfect score in the location category.
Other Rankings: 10/10
Northwestern University’s law school earned a perfect score in this category because of its solid performance on other business law rankings lists.
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