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Top 100 best universities in the world in 2025 QS: Law and Legal Studies

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 2025 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

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