George Washington is tied with Minnesota (down 1) and USC (down 2). The school also did well on specialty area. George Washington is ranked second in the country for part time law schools, third in the country for Intellectual Property Law, sixth in the country for International Law, and eleventh in the country for Environmental Law. Placing in the top ten in three and almost four of these categories speaks well for the school.
The top school remained remarkably unchanged. Stanford dropped one in the rankings this year and Washington University moved up five. Texas moved up one. With ties, slight changes are not particularly important. The movement in the top 20 is one of the smallest changes that I recall from one year to the next. Here are the current rankings:
#1 Yale University
#2 Harvard University
#3 Stanford University
#4 Columbia University
#4 University of Chicago
#6 New York University
#7 University of Pennsylvania
#8 University of Virginia
#9 University of California—Berkeley
#10 Duke University
#10 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor
#12 Northwestern University
#13 Cornell University
#13 Georgetown University
#15 University of Texas—Austin
#16 University of California—Los Angeles
#16 Vanderbilt University
#18 Washington University in St. Louis
#19 Emory University
#20 George Washington University
#20 University of Minnesota—Twin Cities
#20 University of Southern California (Gould)