by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
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 the Southeast region, there were 1,083 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,135 and $25,000 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 108 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,400 and $27,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal research. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their legal research program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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The legal research school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region”.
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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 Southeast Region”.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Florida Memorial University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region. Located in Miami Gardens, Florida, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend James Madison University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region list. JMU is a large school located in Harrisonburg, Virginia that handed out 91 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.0% 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%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 89%.
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