The University of Houston Law Center is a law school located in Houston, Texas. It is accredited by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. Founded in 1947, the Law Center is one of 12 academic colleges of the University of Houston. The law school's facilities are located on the university's 667-acre campus in southeast Houston. Awarding Doctor of Jurisprudence and Master of Laws degrees, the University of Houston Law Center is one of two top-tier public law schools in Texas and is the only top-tier law school in Houston—the nation's fifth-largest legal market. The law school ranks 56 among the "Best Law Schools" in U.S. News & World Report. The College of Law, the academic branch of the Law Center, has a chapter of the Order of the Coif—a national legal honorary scholastic society. The University of Houston Law Center was founded in 1947 as the University of Houston School of Law, with an inaugural class consisting of 28 students and a single professor. The law school was housed in several locations on campus in its first few years—including temporary classrooms and the basement of the M.D. Anderson Library.