2022 Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 2,966 people earned their degree in general advanced legal research/studies, making the major the 252nd most popular in the United States.

At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 100 general advanced legal research/studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,303 and $24,501 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in general advanced legal research/studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent general advanced legal research/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 general advanced legal research/studies program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for General Advanced Legal Research/Studies (With Aid)

#1

James Madison University

Harrisonburg, Virginia

#2 in overall quality

$22,169 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, James Madison University landed the #1 spot on the list. JMU is a large school located in Harrisonburg, Virginia that handed out 74 bachelors’s advanced legal research/studies degrees in 2019-2020.

JMU also took the #2 spot in our “Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for James Madison University is $22,169 for bachelor’s degree advanced legal research/studies students with aid.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 89%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#2

Drexel University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$34,914 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Advanced Legal Research/Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #2 spot on the list. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s advanced legal research/studies degrees to 26 students in 2019-2020.

Drexel did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools” list. The yearly cost to attend Drexel is $34,914 for Bachelor’s Degree Advanced Legal Research/Studies students with aid.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

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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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