Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Advanced Legal Research/Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The advanced legal research/studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality advanced legal research/studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 general advanced legal research/studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general advanced legal research/studies 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 general advanced legal research/studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for general advanced legal research/studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the United States

Regrettably , we do not have sufficient data to form a ranking of the quality schools for general advanced legal research/studies in the United States. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer general advanced legal research/studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

General Advanced Legal Research/Studies by Region

View the Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Related Rankings by Major

General Advanced Legal Research/Studies is one of 24 different types of Legal Research programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	35
International Law & Legal Studies	12
Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law	9
Other Legal Research & Advanced Professional Studies	6
Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources Law	2
Programs for Foreign Lawyers	1
Health Law	1
Tax Law/Taxation	1
Criminal Law and Procedure	1

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.