by our College Data Analytics Team
When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 6,874 people earned their degree in legal research, making the major the 114th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, legal research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $66,544 and had an average of $26,000 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,587 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,516 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 48 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,457 and $25,851 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal research. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal research.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Baltimore, Maryland, this small public school awarded 11 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. California, Pennsylvania is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s legal research degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drexel University landed the #3 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 legal research degrees to 26 students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 88%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arcadia University landed the #4 spot on the list. Arcadia is a small school located in Glenside, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.0% 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%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Le Moyne College. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region list. LeMoyne is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Syracuse, New York. It awarded 0 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.6% 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%.
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