2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Legal Professions & Studies in the Plains States Region

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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Other Legal Professions & Studies is the 324th most popular major in the country with 2,013 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Plains States region, there were 93 other legal professions and studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 28 other legal professions and studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $55,401 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Plains States Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in other legal professions and studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other legal professions and studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Plains States Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree other legal professions & studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Legal Professions & Studies in the Plains States Region

1

Drake University
Des Moines, Iowa

Top 15% overall quality in Plains States

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drake University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Plains States Region. Located in Des Moines, Iowa, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 26 diplomas to qualified masters’s other legal professions and studies students in 2020-2021.

Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Full Drake University Other Legal Professions & Studies Report

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University of Nebraska - Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska

#14 overall quality in Plains States

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska - Lincoln landed the #2 spot on the list. University of Nebraska - Lincoln is a large school located in Lincoln, Nebraska that handed out 2 masters’s other legal professions and studies degrees in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.

Read full report on Other Legal Professions & Studies at University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Legal Professions & Studies

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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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