2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Advanced Legal Research/Studies in the Plains States Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

General Advanced Legal Research/Studies is the 276th most popular major in the country with 2,208 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 274 general advanced legal research/studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 11 general advanced legal research/studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,829 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in general advanced legal research/studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their general advanced legal research/studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region”.

Top 3 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for General Advanced Legal Research/Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Washington University in St Louis
Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Washington University in St Louis. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. Located in Saint Louis, Missouri, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 6 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s advanced legal research/studies students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 94%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 7 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.1%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on General Advanced Legal Research/Studies at WUSTL

2

University of Kansas
Lawrence, Kansas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region. KU is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 4 doctorate’s advanced legal research/studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.3% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full KU General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Report

3

University of Iowa
Iowa City, Iowa

#9 overall quality in Plains States

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Advanced Legal Research/Studies Major in the Plains States Region list. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 1 doctorate’s advanced legal research/studies degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read more about General Advanced Legal Research/Studies at Iowa

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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.