Some good news for Duke University in the form of a new list of top law schools in the country.

U.S. News & World Report’s law school rankings for 2015 are led by the usual schools, with one exception: Duke University’s School of Law broke into the top tier for the first time since 2010 by tying for 10th with University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Yale University was ranked first and Harvard University second on the list released today.

“A graduate degree is a major investment of both time and money,” Brian Kelly, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News & World Report, said today in a statement. “Our Best Graduate Schools rankings are designed to help prospective students research and identify the right programs to pursue in their field of interest.”

The schools are ranked based on new students’ standardized test scores, expert opinions on program quality, acceptance rates and job placement success, among other factors.

Stanford University was ranked third and Columbia University and University of Chicago tied for fourth. New York University was fifth, followed by University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia and University of California at Berkeley.

Several schools that didn’t crack the top 10 were ranked first in specialty programs, including Georgetown University’s clinical training program. Stetson University took first for trial advocacy while Pepperdine University was first for dispute resolution.

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