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2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income $48-$75k) in Louisiana

2 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$28,800 Avg Salary
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k” 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 Louisiana, there were 1,004 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,088 and $71,908 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 63 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,892 and $18,805 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for louisiana associate degree legal professions students whose families make $48-$75k.

#1

Baton Rouge Community College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana
#3 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Baton Rouge Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, this medium-sized public school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified associates’s legal professions students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at BRCC, the school also landed the #3 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Baton Rouge Community College is $11,377 for Louisiana Associate Degree Legal Professions students whose families make $48-$75k.

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#2

Tulane University of Louisiana

New Orleans, Louisiana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for an Associate in Louisiana For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Tulane University of Louisiana landed the #2 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in New Orleans, Louisiana, and it awarded 13 associates’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Tulane not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Louisiana” list. The estimated yearly cost for Tulane is $26,168 for louisiana associate degree legal professions students whose families make $48-$75k.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 92%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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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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