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2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
8 Degrees Awarded
$29,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Legal Professions (Other) is the 196th most popular major in the country with 2,565 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal professions (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,722 and had an average of $45,823 in loans still to pay off.

Across California, there were 727 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $88,600 and $77,179 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,544 and $133,402 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal professions (other) programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal professions (other) program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Berkeley. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in California For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Berkeley, California, this large public school handed out 8 degrees to qualified doctorate’s other legal professions students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UC Berkeley, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Doctor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of California - Berkeley are $29,347, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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