2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Plains States Region

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 “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great non-professional general legal studies programs and 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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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree non-professional general legal studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Plains States Region

#1

Webster University

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$13,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Webster University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region. Webster is a medium-sized school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 13 masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Webster did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Webster University are $13,500, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Non-Professional General Legal Studies at Webster University

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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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