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2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
142 Degrees Awarded
$66,854 Avg Salary
Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes 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 “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions (Other) is the 200th most popular major in the country with 2,013 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal professions (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $51,368 and had an average of $27,963 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 255 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,959 and $27,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 142 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,892 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions (other). This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal professions (other).

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The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region master’s degree other legal professions students.

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Northwestern University is located in Evanston, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 82 masters’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.6% 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%. With a freshman retention rate of 97%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

Full Northwestern University Legal Professions (Other) Report

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Case Western Reserve University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region. Case Western is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 15 masters’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Legal Professions (Other) at Case Western Reserve University

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Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Loyola University Chicago. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 19 diplomas to qualified masters’s other legal professions students in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.7%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Full Loyola Chicago Legal Professions (Other) Report

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Michigan State University is a large public school situated in East Lansing, Michigan. It awarded 25 masters’s other legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 91%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Legal Professions (Other) at Michigan State

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions Major in the Great Lakes Region. UIUC is located in Champaign, Illinois and, has a large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 1 masters’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Legal Professions (Other) Report

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