by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 3,818 people earned their degree in legal studies, making the major the 195th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 312 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 250 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,403 and $25,944 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking looked at 11 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal studies. That schools that top this list have a program in legal studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree legal studies students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Suffolk University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region. This medium-sized school is located in Boston, Massachusetts, and it awarded 69 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Post University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region. Located in Waterbury, Connecticut, this fairly large private for-profit school awarded 34 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal studies students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Lasell University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region. Newton, Massachusetts is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal studies degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bay Path University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region. Bay Path University is a small school located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts that handed out 16 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 11 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Amherst, Massachusetts, this large public school awarded 99 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal studies students in 2020-2021.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Legal Studies at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Hampshire College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region ranking. Hampshire College is a small school located in Amherst, Massachusetts that handed out 2 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
University of New Haven ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region list. University of New Haven is located in West Haven, Connecticut and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 13 bachelors’s legal studies degrees to qualified students.
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%.
Read full report on Legal Studies at University of New Haven
Western New England University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #8. Western New England is a small school located in Springfield, Massachusetts that handed out 6 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Legal Studies at Western New England University
Keene State College landed the #9 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region ranking. Keene State College is a public institution located in Keene, New Hampshire. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Elms College did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region ranking, coming in at #10. This small school is located in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Anna Maria College ranked #10 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region list. Anna Maria College is a private not-for-profit institution located in Paxton, Massachusetts. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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