2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in Massachusetts

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 2 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $42,887 and $24,387 respectively.

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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the legal assistant/paralegal program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in Massachusetts

#1

Bay Path University

Longmeadow, Massachusetts

#1 in overall quality

$22,211 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Bay Path University landed the #1 spot on the list. This small school is located in Longmeadow, Massachusetts, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2019-2020.

Bay Path did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts” list. The estimated yearly cost for Bay Path is $22,211 for Massachusetts Bachelor’s Degree Paralegal students.

Read more about Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Bay Path

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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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