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The Most Diverse Law Schools (2025) – Above the Law

Affirmative
action
may
have
been
dismantled
in
higher
education
and
diversity
may
be
under
attack,
but
this
hasn’t
stopped
students
from
navigating
the
pathway
to
law
school.
Despite
these
challenges,
law
schools
have
been
doing
their
very
best
to
recruit
diverse
students
and
professors,
attempting
to
make
the
legal
profession
look
more
like
society
at
large.
Student
diversity
may
sadly
be
declining,
but
if
you’re
a
person
of
color
searching
for
a
law
school
where
you’ll
be
truly
valued
for
who
you
are
as
a
person,
then
have
we
got
a
ranking
for
you.

The

National
Jurist’s
preLaw
magazine

recently
released
its
Most
Diverse
Law
Schools
ranking,
highlighting
the
schools
that
are
really
doing
their
homework
when
it
comes
to
diversifying
their
institutions.
Here’s
the
methodology
that
was
used:

We
graded
schools
based
on
how
well
each
school
matches
with
the
U.S.
average
for
each
minority
population.
For
students,
we
looked
at
Asian
(which
includes
native
Hawaiian),
Black,
Hispanic,
Caucasian
and
American
Indian
populations.
For
faculty,
we
compared
the
percentage
of
minority
faculty
members
to
the
overall
U.S.
minority
population.
A
school
received
full
credit
when
it
matched
the
national
average
and
could
receive
up
to
40%
added
value
if
its
percentage
was
higher
than
the
national
average
for
each
population.
Faculty
diversity
accounted
for
25%
of
the
final
grade,
with
each
student
population
accounting
for
16.67%,
except
American
Indian,
which
accounted
for
8.32%
of
the
final
grade.
We
have
used
this
methodology
since
2013.

Without
further
ado,
here
are
the
top
20
most
diverse
law
schools:

  1. CUNY
    School
    of
    Law
  2. Texas
    Southern
    University
  3. University
    District
    of
    Columbia
  4. Florida
    A&M
    University
  5. UNT
    Dallas
    |
    College
    of
    Law
  6. University
    of
    San
    Francisco
  7. Atlanta’s
    John
    Marshall
  8. Penn
    State

    Dickinson
    Law
  9. North
    Carolina
    Central
    University
  10. Barry
    Law
    School
  11. University
    of
    Nevada,
    Las
    Vegas
  12. University
    of
    Arizona
  13. Northern
    Illinois
    University
  14. UCLA
    Law
  15. South
    Texas
    Houston
  16. Yale
    Law
    School
  17. Southwestern
    Law
    School
  18. University
    of
    Houston
  19. George
    Washington
    University
  20. Oklahoma
    City
    University

As
you
can
see,
two
of
the
best
law
schools
in
the
country

UCLA
and
Yale

made
their
way
to
the
top
of
the
diversity
ranking
this
time
around.
If
you’re
looking
for
T14
law
schools,
you’ll
find
several
of
them
in
the
unranked
portion
of
this
list,
designated
only
by
their
letter
grades
(A-).
Click

here

to
see
the
full
rankings,
courtesy
of
National
Jurist.

Congratulations
to
each
of
the
law
schools
listed
and
all
of
their
students!


Most
Diverse
Law
Schools

[preLaw
magazine
/
National
Jurist]



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