2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
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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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 182 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 22 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal studies.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree legal studies students.
Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Webster University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 19 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal studies students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Legal Studies at Webster University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drake University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal studies students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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%.
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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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