| Law School Thinking about going to law school? It is a big decision to make. Beforing jumping into the application process, read this article: Some thoughts on attending law school by Jonathan Blitz. Maybe it will help you to decide whether you should go for it or not. When choosing law school, you need to consider what is the most important thing to you. Is it money? Or location? Or future job opportunity? Or a particular field of law you are really interested in? Think about those factors before making your decision which ones you are to apply. You also need to think about the selectivenss of each law school. Some can be more selective than others. A very popular law school ranking is released by US News every year. Click here. For JD students, some people even suggest that you must get into the top 10 law schools to guarantee a great future. JD Program 2002 Top 10 US Law Schools-Ranked by US News 1 Yale University (CT) 2 Stanford University (CA) 3 Harvard University (MA) 4 Columbia University (NY) 5 New York University 6 University of Chicago 7 University of Michigan–Ann Arbor University of Virginia 9 University of California–Berkeley 10 Duke University (NC) University of Pennsylvania LLM program AUAP (American Universities Admission Program) publishes every year the only classification of US LLM/Master of Law Programs.Those rankings are established by university professors and a panel of International Law offices. 2003 Rankings LL.M/Master of Law in the USA 1) Columbia* (NY) 1) Harvard Law School* (MA) 3) University of Pennsylvania* (PA) 3) Cornell* (NY) 5) Wake Forest University (NC) 6) Stanford Ph.D. (CA) 7) Yale (CT) 8) American University (DC) 9) UCLA (CA) 10) Georgetown (DC) 11) Fordham (NY) 12) UC Berkeley (CA) 13) University of Chicago (IL) 14 ) Penn State University (PA) 15) LSU (LA) *= tied |