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

1 Ranked Colleges
31 Degrees Awarded
$29,400 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in Iowa

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Studies is the 225th most popular major in the country with 3,546 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Iowa, there were 33 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,922 and $25,876 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the legal studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. If you’re torn between two schools, you can use it to help you see how they stack up against one another. Bookmark it so you can compare any new schools that might interest you.

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa.

#1

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drake University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal studies degrees to 31 students in 2019-2020.

Drake also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Drake University is $29,432 for iowa bachelor’s degree legal studies students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The low student loan default rate of 2.2% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Legal Studies at Drake

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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