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2022 Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
159 Degrees Awarded
$39,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master's in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 master’s degree level specifically, there were 159 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,088 and $45,388 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal research programs and 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 legal research program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for north carolina master’s degree legal research students with aid.

#1

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wake Forest University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in North Carolina For Those Getting Aid. Wake Forest University is located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 47 masters’s legal research degrees to qualified students.

Wake Forest University also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wake Forest University are $39,216, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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