The popular college guide’s “Best Law Schools for 2025” includes Elon Law and student praise for its innovative, skills-based curriculum and exceptional faculty and staff.
For the 10th consecutive year, Elon University School of Law is named among the nation’s best law schools by The Princeton Review.
The influential college guide features Elon Law in its “Best Law Schools for 2025” guidebook, with rankings drawn from surveys of law school administrators and 19,600 law students nationwide. Elon Law appears among the guide’s 168 best schools, which the publication does not rank numerically.
The guide highlights student feedback for Elon Law’s innovative, skills-based curriculum.
“‘Practice teaches you so much more than sitting in a class does,’ and they get plenty of it at Elon,” the guide notes, citing a student’s observation.
Elon Law’s 2.5-year program lowers tuition and grants graduates early entry into their legal careers. Since adopting its full-time accelerated program, student loan debt at graduation has dropped by nearly a third. Bar passage and career placement rates reached 96% for the Class of 2023, bolstered by strategic investments in faculty and staff.
“Every one of the law schools we name as ‘best’ for 2025 offers an outstanding program of professional studies for anyone aspiring to earn a J.D,” said Rob Franek, editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review, a leading tutoring and college admissions services company founded in 1981. “Our rankings identify schools that are distinctive for features beyond academics — from stellar career services to notable aspects of their campus culture.”
And Elon Law again made The Princeton Review’s top 10 list of “Most Competitive Students,” a category that reflects the level of student commitment to studying outside the classroom, and the degree of ambition and competitiveness students report among their peers. The law school was ranked No. 7 in the most recent edition.
The premier skills law school, Elon Law in downtown Greensboro integrates classroom instruction with course-connected, full-time residencies-in-practice that pair students with judges and practicing lawyers during their second year of study. The Elon Law Flex Program, an in-person, part-time program of legal study in Charlotte, brings the school’s hands-on approach to place-bound students in and around the Queen City.
Student reflections as reported in the 2024 by the Princeton Review
On Elon Law’s professors:
- They “make this school shine,” and “take time to listen.”
- Students noted that they “maintain the rigor expected at a law school [while going] beyond … to lend a helping hand (in school and personal situations).”
On experiential learning:
- “The residency program is a tremendous asset to this school,” and students are able to influence their placements based upon their own special interests in specific areas of the law.
- Students also cited participation in legal practice labs and case simulations led by attorneys, “even for first years,” attorney-mentors assigned to them on the first day of classes, and access to trials and court personnel in the North Carolina Business Court in the school’s Robert E. Long Courtroom.
On the faculty, staff and administration:
- The librarians “are the best [in] the business” because they “are passionate, patient, and precipitant in academic success.”
- Faculty in the Office of Academic Success are truly devoted to helping the students.”
- The “responsive administration” is “constantly … seeking insight on improvement” and is “well-organized for planning coursework and facilitating student connections with jobs and internships.”
On the value:
- “I love the [shorter] program, and so does my wallet.”
“Elon Law helps students achieve their dreams of becoming lawyers. Their success — and the difference they will make in their communities — drives everything we do,” said Elon Law Dean Zak Kramer. “It’s gratifying to see our students recognize that mission and to be included in The Princeton Review’s list of top law schools for the tenth year in a row.”