Boston University School of Law
Law school of Boston University
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| 2025 | Boston University School of Law ranked tied 22nd in U.S. News & World Report's best law schools list, with its Health Law program ranked 5th and Intellectual Property Law program ranked 11th. |
| 2024 | Boston University School of Law ranked 24th among American law schools in the U.S. News & World Report best law schools list. |
| 2023 | Boston University School of Law achieved an 87.70% bar examination passage rate for first-time test takers. |
| 2023 | Boston University School of Law admitted a diverse class of 220 students from 34 states, the District of Columbia, and 17 countries, representing 121 undergraduate institutions. The entering class comprised 44% students of color. |
| 2022 | Ranked 29th by the Above The Law Top 50 Law Schools list for post-graduate gainful employment. |
| 2021 | The law school's Ultimate Bar Pass Rate was 98.16% for the graduating class, representing graduates who passed the bar examination within two years of graduation. |
| 2021 | Ranked eighth for graduates with the best debt-to-salary ratio. |
| 2019 | Ranked #9 on the US News list 'Schools Where Salaries for Grads Most Outweigh the Debt'. |
| 2019 | Placed 68 graduates from the class at NLJ 100 firms, achieving the number 15 slot on the National Journal law school rankings for large law firm employment. |
| 2019 | The law school reported a median starting salary of $176,000 for graduates entering the private sector and $79,000 for those in the public sector. |
| 2019 | Boston University School of Law reported a 87.6% full-time, long-term, JD-required employment rate for the Class of 2017 ten months after graduation. |
| July 2016 | BU Law became headquarters for a $350 million CARB-X initiative researching antibiotic-resistant diseases, with Professor Kevin Outterson as executive director. |
| 2014 | Multi-million dollar refurbishment of the BU Law tower began. |
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