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2022 Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
2 Degrees Awarded
$25,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the 154th most popular major in the country with 4,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,672 and had an average of $34,776 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Plains States region, there were 175 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,926 and $43,266 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,701 and $106,703 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality non-professional general legal studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

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

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

#1

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Plains States Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Kansas is a public institution located in Lawrence, Kansas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 2 doctorate’s degrees in 2019-2020.

KU also made our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at KU are $25,007, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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

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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