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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Support Services in the Middle Atlantic Region

8 Ranked Colleges
183 Degrees Awarded
$17,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Support Services is the 105th most popular major in the country with 10,854 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,484 and had an average of $23,785 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 1,495 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,888 and $20,467 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 183 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 8 colleges that offer a degree in legal support services. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal support services 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 support services program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students.

#1

Peirce College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Peirce College. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Peirce is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 25 bachelors’s legal support degrees to qualified students.

Peirce did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $10,128 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students per year to attend Peirce College.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

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#2

Wilmington University

New Castle, Delaware
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 8 schools in the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Wilmington University landed the #2 spot on the list. Wilmington University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in New Castle, Delaware. It awarded 13 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

Wilmington University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Wilmington University is $14,683 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend New York City College of Technology. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. New York City College of Technology is a public institution located in Brooklyn, New York. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 44 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

City Tech did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $3,667 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students per year to attend City Tech.

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#4

SUNY Canton

Canton, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend SUNY Canton. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Canton, New York, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at SUNY Canton, the school also landed the #5 spot in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend SUNY Canton is $13,864 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students.

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#5

Mercy College

Dobbs Ferry, New York
#7 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mercy College. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Mercy College is a medium-sized school located in Dobbs Ferry, New York that handed out 8 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

Mercy did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #7 on our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Mercy College is $14,281 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students.

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#6

Wesley College

Dover, Delaware

Wesley College landed the #6 spot on the 2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. This small school is located in Dover, Delaware, and it awarded 19 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students list, Wesley College has also earned the #8 rank in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $24,846 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students per year to attend Wesley College.

The student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Full Wesley College Legal Support Services Report

#7

Stevenson University

Stevenson, Maryland

Stevenson University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. This small school is located in Stevenson, Maryland, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

Stevenson also took the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Stevenson University is $27,142 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students.

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#8

Widener University

Chester, Pennsylvania
#6 in overall quality

Widener University came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Located in Chester, Pennsylvania, this medium-sized private not-for-profit school awarded 4 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal support students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Widener, the school also landed the #6 spot in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $31,345 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal support students per year to attend Widener University.

The low student loan default rate of 4.8% 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%.

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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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