2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Other) in the Plains States Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. 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 Master’s in the Plains States 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 Plains States region, there were 77 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,900 and $61,450 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 8 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions (other) programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the legal professions (other) program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Other) in the Plains States Region

#1

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa

#1 in overall quality

$11,932 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Drake University landed the #1 spot on the list. Drake is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Des Moines, Iowa. It awarded 5 masters’s other legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Drake not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Drake University are $11,932, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Legal Professions (Other) at Drake

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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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