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2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Research (Income $0-$30k) in Iowa

1 Ranked Colleges
1 Degrees Awarded
$27,600 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Research is the 89th most popular major in the country with 9,738 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,635 and had an average of $65,122 in loans still to pay off.

Across Iowa, there were 7 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,469 and $117,729 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal research programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the legal research program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k.

#1

University of Iowa

Iowa City, Iowa
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Iowa. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in Iowa For Those Making $0-$30k list. University of Iowa is a large school located in Iowa City, Iowa that handed out 1 doctorate’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

Iowa not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Research Doctor’s Degree Schools in Iowa” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Iowa are $27,613.

Read more about Legal Research at Iowa

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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