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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k

3 Ranked Colleges
121 Degrees Awarded
$32,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master's in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Georgia, there were 1,498 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,500 and $58,784 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 121 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,988 and $43,995 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions 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 program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

The legal professions school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k”.

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

#1

Emory University

Atlanta, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Emory University landed the #1 spot on the list. Emory University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 79 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Emory also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Emory are $44,676, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Emory University Legal Professions Report

#2

University of Georgia

Athens, Georgia
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Georgia. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k list. Located in Athens, Georgia, this large public school awarded 27 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal professions students in 2019-2020.

UGA did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UGA are $27,476.

Read full report on Legal Professions at UGA

#3

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Georgia State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Georgia For Those Making $0-$30k. Georgia State is a public institution located in Atlanta, Georgia. The school has a large population, and it awarded 15 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia State are $24,790.

Full Georgia State Legal Professions Report

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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