2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in Massachusetts

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 9,938 people earned their degree in legal assistant/paralegal, making the major the 123rd most popular in the United States.

Across Massachusetts, there were 103 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 51 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,678 and $11,688 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal assistant/paralegal programs, but they also 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 assistant/paralegal program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts.

Top 2 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in Massachusetts

#1

Bay Path University

Longmeadow, Massachusetts

#2 in overall quality

$22,211 Average Net Price

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Bay Path University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified associates’s paralegal students in 2019-2020.

Bay Path did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. The yearly cost to attend Bay Path University is $22,211 for Massachusetts Associate Degree Paralegal students.

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#2

Suffolk University

Boston, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$30,701 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Suffolk University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Paralegal Schools for an Associate in Massachusetts list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out associates’s paralegal degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

Suffolk also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in Massachusetts” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Suffolk is $30,701 for Massachusetts Associate Degree Paralegal students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in the New England Region
• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal

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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