2023 Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s

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Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the 143rd most popular major in the country with 4,407 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,632 and had an average of $33,872 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 85 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,309 and $30,500 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,645 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in non-professional general legal studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have one of the most popular non-professional general legal studies programs in the United States.

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Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s”.

Top 2 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in District of Columbia

1

Howard University
Washington, District of Columbia

#6 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Howard University. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Full Howard Non-Professional General Legal Studies Report

2

Catholic University of America
Washington, District of Columbia

#4 overall quality in District of Columbia

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in District of Columbia for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Catholic University of America landed the #2 spot on the list. Washington, District of Columbia is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to 2 students in 2020-2021.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Non-Professional General Legal Studies at CUA

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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

• *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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