by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Legal Studies is the 195th most popular major in the country with 3,818 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the New England region, there were 312 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 40 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,618 and $16,599 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their legal studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The legal studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region associate degree legal studies students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Post University landed the #1 spot on the list. Post University is located in Waterbury, Connecticut and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 40 associates’s legal studies degrees to qualified students.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of New Haven landed the #2 spot on the list. West Haven, Connecticut is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s legal studies degrees to 13 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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