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2022 Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region

5 Ranked Colleges
275 Degrees Awarded
$24,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the New England Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 New England region, there were 311 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,729 and $38,813 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 275 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,041 and $24,492 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in non-professional general legal studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent non-professional general legal studies programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region bachelor’s degree non-professional general legal studies students.

#1

Post University

Waterbury, Connecticut

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Post University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Post University is a fairly large school located in Waterbury, Connecticut that handed out 43 bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Post University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $15,653 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students per year to attend Post University.

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#2

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, Massachusetts

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Massachusetts Amherst landed the #2 spot on the list. Amherst, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to 91 students in 2019-2020.

UMass Amherst did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $22,501 for new england region bachelor’s degree non-professional general legal studies students per year to attend UMass Amherst.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 89%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#3

Bay Path University

Longmeadow, Massachusetts

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bay Path University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 17 degrees to qualified bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies students in 2019-2020.

Bay Path did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. It costs about $22,211 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students per year to attend Bay Path.

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#4

Suffolk University

Boston, Massachusetts

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Suffolk University landed the #4 spot on the list. Suffolk is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 70 bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to qualified students.

Suffolk did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Suffolk University is $30,701 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.0% 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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#5

Champlain College

Burlington, Vermont

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Champlain College. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the New England Region. Champlain College is a small school located in Burlington, Vermont that handed out 8 bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Champlain not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Champlain College is $33,561 for New England Region Bachelor’s Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students.

The low student loan default rate of 4.2% 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

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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