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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income $0-$30k) in South Carolina

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$23,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor's in South Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k

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 Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions is the 17th most popular major in the country with 61,993 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,199 and had an average of $58,026 in loans still to pay off.

Across South Carolina, there were 568 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,980 and $57,741 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal professions 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 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.

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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 Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k” list to help you make the college decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for south carolina bachelor’s degree legal professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

#1

South University, Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University, Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina For Those Making $0-$30k. South University, Columbia is a private for-profit institution located in Columbia, South Carolina. The school has a small population, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

South University, Columbia did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” list. The yearly cost to attend South University, Columbia is $23,326 for south carolina bachelor’s degree legal professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%.

Read more about Legal Professions at South University, Columbia

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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