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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Other) in the Middle Atlantic Region

7 Ranked Colleges
159 Degrees Awarded
$18,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the Middle Atlantic region, there were 534 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,489 and $36,954 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 159 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal professions (other). 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.

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 professions (other) program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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

#1

Berkeley College - New York

New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Berkeley College - New York. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Berkeley College - New York is located in New York, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

Berkeley College - New York not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Berkeley College - New York is $15,783 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students.

Full Berkeley College - New York Legal Professions (Other) Report

#2

Central Penn College

Summerdale, Pennsylvania

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Central Penn College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Central Penn is a private for-profit institution located in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 10 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Central Penn also made our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #5. The yearly cost to attend Central Penn is $20,862 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students.

The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Full Central Penn College Legal Professions (Other) Report

#3

Peirce College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#7 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Peirce College. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s other legal professions students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Peirce, the school also landed the #7 spot in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Peirce College is $10,128 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students.

With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

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#4

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Montclair State University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. Montclair State is a large school located in Montclair, New Jersey that handed out 20 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students list, Montclair State has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Montclair State University is $18,034 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students.

The student loan default rate at the school is 4.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

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#5

Berkeley College - Woodland Park

Woodland Park, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berkeley College - Woodland Park. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region. Berkeley College - Woodland Park is a private for-profit institution located in Woodland Park, New Jersey. The school has a small population, and it awarded 17 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Berkeley College - Woodland Park not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #6 on our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $15,483 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students per year to attend Berkeley College - Woodland Park.

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#6

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Temple University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region ranking. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to 30 students in 2019-2020.

Temple not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Temple University is $23,521 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#4 in overall quality

With a ranking of #7, St John’s University - New York did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region list. St John’s University - New York is a large school located in Queens, New York that handed out 12 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students list, STJ has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $27,130 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students per year to attend St John’s University - New York.

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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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