We offer an overview of TOP-100 best universities in the world with the study of law for foreign students. Obtaining a bachelor's degree in law abroad does not give the right to work in the field of law, but this is an excellent first step towards this. Different countries have their own procedure for preparing for a career in the field of law.
In the U.S. and Canada, you must have a bachelor's degree before pursuing a master's degree in law to earn a Juris Doctor (JD) degree. It will take you about three years to get a Bachelor of Laws degree, it will take you another year to obtain a Master of Laws degree, and it will take up to three years to obtain a Doctor of Laws degree in the United States.
Master's (LLM) and Bachelor's (LLB) degrees in European law are available at many universities throughout Europe. Such a scheme of training lawyers is relevant in the EU member states. Some countries, such as the UK, offer a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in as little as three years.
Law programs teach students to think critically, research, debate, and analyze, allowing them to study a wide range of social sciences and humanities issues within a single degree.
Top 100 best universities in the world in 2026 QS: Law and Legal Studies
| Rank | University | Overall Score |
| 1 | Harvard University | 99,7 |
| 2 | University of Oxford | 98,1 |
| 3 | Cambridge University | 97,1 |
| 4 | Yale University | 94,3 |
| 5 | Stanford Universit | 93,5 |
| 6 | New York University | 91,7 |
| 7 | LSE London School of Economics and Political Science | 90,6 |
| 8 | Columbia University | 89,4 |
| 9 | University of California, Berkeley (UCB) | 89,2 |
| 10 | University of Melbourne | 88,3 |
| 11 | University of Chicago | 87,9 |
| =12 | National University of Singapore | 87,6 |
| =12 | University of New South Wales | 87,6 |
| 14 | University College London | 84,8 |
| 15 | King`s College London | 84,3 |
| 16 | The University of Sydney | 84,2 |
| =17 | Université Paris 1 (UP1) Pantheon-Sorbonne | 83,0 |
| =17 | University of Toronto | 83,0 |
| 19 | University of California Los Angeles | 82,1 |
| =20 | University of Edinburgh | 82,0 |
| =20 | The University of Hong Kong | 82,0 |
| 22 | University of Tokyo | 81,9 |
| 23 | Georgetown University | 81,8 |
| 24 | Leiden University | 81,3 |
| 25 | The Australian National University | 81,1 |
| =26 | Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) | 81,0 |
| =26 | Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) | 81,0 |
| 28 | McGill University | 80,4 |
| 29 | University of Pennsylvania | 80,3 |
| 30 | Duke University | 79,5 |
| =31 | Peking University | 79,4 |
| =31 | Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC) | 79,4 |
| 33 | Tsinghua University | 79,0 |
| 34 | Cornell University | 78,9 |
| 35 | University of Amsterdam | 78,3 |
| =36 | Monash University | 78,2 |
| =36 | University of Michigan-Ann Arbor | 78,2 |
| =38 | Queen Mary University of London | 78,1 |
| =38 | Universidad de Los Andes | 78,1 |
| 40 | KU Leuven | 78,0 |
| 41 | Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna | 77,7 |
| 42 | University of British Columbia | 77,6 |
| =43 | Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München | 77,0 |
| =43 | Universidad de Chile | 77,0 |
| =45 | Sapienza University of Rome | 76,7 |
| =45 | Universidade Federal de São Paulo | 76,7 |
| 47 | Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin | 76,5 |
| 48 | Durham University | 76,4 |
| 49 | The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) | 76,2 |
| 50 | University of Virginia | 76,0 |
| 51 | Universidad Externado de Colombia | 75,9 |
| =52 | Luiss Guido Carli University | 74,9 |
| =52 | The University of Queensland | 74,9 |
| 54 | City University of Hong Kong | 74,8 |
| 55 | The University of Auckland | 74,5 |
| 56 | Utrecht University | 74,4 |
| =57 | University of Manchester | 74,0 |
| =57 | Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Bocconi University) | 74,0 |
| 59 | Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin | 73,9 |
| 60 | Maastricht University | 73,5 |
| 61 | University of Bristol | 73,4 |
| =62 | Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg | 73,3 |
| =62 | Seoul National University | 73,3 |
| 64 | Sciences Po | 73,2 |
| 65 | Freie Universität Berlin | 73,1 |
| =66 | European University Institute | 73,0 |
| =66 | Kyoto University | 73,0 |
| =68 | Northwestern University | 72,9 |
| =68 | University of Glasgow | 72,9 |
| =68 | University of Technology Sydney | 72,9 |
| 71 | China University of Political Science and Law | 72,7 |
| 72 | O.P. Jindal Global University | 72,6 |
| 73 | University College Cork | 72,5 |
| =74 | Complutense University of Madrid | 72,4 |
| =74 | Lomonosov Moscow State University | 72,4 |
| 76 | Renmin (People's) University of China | 72,3 |
| 77 | National Taiwan University (NTU) | 72,2 |
| 78 | University of Nottingham | 72,1 |
| 79 | University of Texas at Austin | 72,0 |
| 80 | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) | 71,9 |
| 81 | Victoria University of Wellington | 71,8 |
| =82 | Universidad Autónoma de Madrid | 71,7 |
| =82 | Waseda University | 71,7 |
| 84 | Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú | 71,4 |
| =85 | American University Washington | 71,3 |
| =85 | University of Copenhagen | 71,3 |
| =85 | Universitetet i Oslo | 71,3 |
| =85 | Zhejiang University | 71,3 |
| =89 | George Washington University | 71,2 |
| =89 | Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU) | 71,2 |
| 91 | Lund University | 71,0 |
| =92 | Boston University | 70,9 |
| =92 | Shanghai Jiao Tong University | 70,9 |
| =92 | University College Dublin | 70,9 |
| 95 | Universite libre de Bruxelles | 70,8 |
| 96 | Wuhan University | 70,7 |
| 97 | University of Vienna | 70,6 |
| 98 | University of Geneva | 70,5 |
| =99 | Universität Hamburg | 70,4 |
| =99 | University of Ottawa | 70,4 |
