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2022 Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
32 Degrees Awarded
$39,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 North Carolina, there were 192 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $133,200 and $170,276 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 32 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,103 and $114,434 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal research programs that also have a lower cost than 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 legal research program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina doctor’s degree legal research students whose families make $48-$75k.

#1

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Doctorate in North Carolina For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Wake Forest University landed the #1 spot on the list. Wake Forest University is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It awarded 4 doctorate’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

Wake Forest University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Research Doctor’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Wake Forest University are $39,216.

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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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