2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
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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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Legal Studies is the 195th most popular major in the country with 3,818 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Plains States region, there were 182 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal studies.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree legal studies students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Lawrence, Kansas, and it awarded 15 doctorate’s legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% 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%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Read more about Legal Studies at University of Kansas
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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