What you need to know about the top law schools in the United States

With the presidential election just days away, the top 20 law schools have been released.

Below are our top 20 schools for 2018, ranked by their number of applicants per class.

Read more about our top law school rankings and our methodology here.1.

Yale Law School (New Haven, Connecticut)1.2.

New York University (New York)2.

Stanford University (Stanford, California)3.

New Orleans School of Law (New Orleans)4.

Georgetown University (Washington, D.C.)5.

Washington and Lee University (Virginia Beach, Virginia)6.

University of California at Irvine (California)7.

Harvard Law School-Yale (Cambridge, Massachusetts)8.

University at Buffalo (New Jersey)9.

Boston University (Massachusetts)10.

University College London (London)11.

Yale University (Upper Saddle River, New Jersey)12.

Washington University in St. Louis (St. Louis, Missouri)13.

Vanderbilt University (Tennessee)14.

University Of Virginia (Virginia)15.

University Park School of Public Health (Maryland)16.

University At Buffalo (North Dakota)17.

University Law School at Florida Atlantic University (Florida)18.

University School Of Law (Texas)19.

Georgetown Law School(Washington, DC)20.

University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia)1