2024 Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa

Law is of the hottest doctor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #1 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

College Factual looked at 2 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 237 doctor's degrees in law during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to law students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of law students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized law related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for law students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Law Schools

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 Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Iowa list to help you make the college decision.

 

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Law in Iowa

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in law.

Top Iowa Schools for a Doctorate in Law

1

Drake University
Des Moines, IA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

100 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a doctor's degree in law has to check out Drake University. Drake is a small private not-for-profit university located in the midsize city of Des Moines.More information about a doctorate in law from Drake University

2

University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

137 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in law has to take a look at University of Iowa. Located in the city of Iowa City, Iowa is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in law from University of Iowa

Best Law Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Law Colleges in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	199	693
Missouri	175	619
Kansas	134	198
Nebraska	99	216
North Dakota	88	56
South Dakota	57	62

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.