by our College Data Analytics Team
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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania” ranking - to help you make that decision.
Legal Research is the 114th most popular major in the country with 6,874 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Pennsylvania, there were 382 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,186 and $27,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 37 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in legal research. That schools that top this list have a program in legal research in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania” 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 pennsylvania bachelor’s degree legal research students.
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, California University of Pennsylvania landed the #1 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in California, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Drexel University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania list. Drexel University is a large school located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania that handed out 26 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 88%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. 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%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arcadia University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Pennsylvania. Arcadia is a small school located in Glenside, Pennsylvania that handed out 1 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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