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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in New York

5 Ranked Colleges
379 Degrees Awarded
$18,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in New York

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

In 2019-2020, 3,546 people earned their degree in legal studies, making the major the 225th most popular in the United States.

Across New York, there were 400 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 379 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,973 and $22,589 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the legal studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York” list to help you make the college decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for new york bachelor’s degree legal studies students.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York. John Jay College of Criminal Justice is a fairly large school located in New York, New York that handed out 157 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

John Jay also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. The yearly cost to attend John Jay is $2,532 for new york bachelor’s degree legal studies students.

Read more about Legal Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

#2

SUNY Canton

Canton, New York
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend SUNY Canton. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York. SUNY Canton is a small public school situated in Canton, New York. It awarded 1 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

SUNY Canton did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” list. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Canton is $13,864 for new york bachelor’s degree legal studies students.

Read full report on Legal Studies at SUNY Canton

#3

Mercy College

Dobbs Ferry, New York
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Mercy College landed the #3 spot on the list. Dobbs Ferry, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal studies degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

Mercy did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mercy College is $14,281 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Legal Studies students.

Full Mercy College Legal Studies Report

#2 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, St John’s University - New York landed the #4 spot on the list. This large school is located in Queens, New York, and it awarded 121 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

STJ also took the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for St John’s University - New York is $27,130 for new york bachelor’s degree legal studies students.

Read more about Legal Studies at St John’s University - New York

#5

Ithaca College

Ithaca, New York
#3 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Ithaca College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in New York. Ithaca, New York is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal studies degrees to 14 students in 2019-2020.

Ithaca also took the #3 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in New York” ranking. It costs about $33,465 for New York Bachelor’s Degree Legal Studies students per year to attend Ithaca.

The student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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Notes and References

References

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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