page_title: University of Houston Law Center
section_title: Rankings
hierarchical_section_title: University of Houston Law Center / Rankings
caption_attribution_description: A photo taken of the front of the UH Law Center on Graduation Day.
context_page_description: The University of Houston Law Center is the law school of the University of Houston in Houston, Texas. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 colleges of the University of Houston, a state university. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. The law school's facilities are located on the university's 667-acre campus in southeast Houston.
  The Law Center awards the Juris Doctor and Master of Laws degrees. The law school ranked 56th in the 2018 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings.
  According to UHLC's 2013 ABA-required disclosures, 63.2% of the class of 2013 obtained full-time, long-term, JD-required employment nine months after graduation.
  The dean of the Law Center is Leonard M. Baynes.
context_section_description: The law school was tied for 50th in the 2016 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. U.S. News also ranks the school in three specialties: second for health care law, seventh for intellectual property law, and sixth among part-time programs.
  In 2010, the school ranked 34th for number of alumni included on the Super Lawyers list. The National Law Journal reported that the Law Center ranked 29th for the percentage of its graduates hired as first-year associates at the nation's 250 largest law firms in 2013. In 2013, the influential law blog "Above the Law" ranked the school 35th on its "Above the Law Top 50 Law Schools List."
  The 2021 US News & World Report rankings named the University of Houston Law Center the 56st best law school in the United States.
caption: The O'Quinn Law Library entrance (center) and Bates Law Building (right)
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