Legal Research is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #114 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of legal research. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 91 degrees in legal research during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Your choice of legal research school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Legal Research School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Best Legal Research Schools in Minnesota list to help you make the college decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of legal research degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in legal research. UMN Twin Cities is a very large public university located in the large city of Minneapolis. A Best Colleges rank of #51 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means UMN Twin Cities is a great university overall.
There were roughly 19 legal research students who graduated with this degree at UMN Twin Cities in the most recent data year.
Hamline University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal research. Hamline is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul. This university ranks 14th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were about 21 legal research students who graduated with this degree at Hamline in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat University of St Thomas Minnesota if you wish to pursue a degree in legal research. UST MN is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul. This university ranks 3rd out of 52 schools for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were approximately 25 legal research students who graduated with this degree at UST MN in the most recent data year.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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Your choice of legal research school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Legal Research School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
