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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k

1 Ranked Colleges
38 Degrees Awarded
$8,500 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k” 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 Iowa, there were 333 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,631 and $38,225 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 38 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,684 and $18,179 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal professions programs and 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 program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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 an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k” list to help you make the college decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Des Moines Area Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Iowa For Those Making $30-$48k list. DMACC is a large school located in Ankeny, Iowa that handed out 20 associates’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

DMACC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Iowa” ranking. It costs about $8,543 for Iowa Associate Degree Legal Professions students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Des Moines Area Community College.

Read full report on Legal Professions at DMACC

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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