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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$17,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master's in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k

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 Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k” 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 Kentucky, there were 450 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,950 and $49,616 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 6 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,847 and $34,311 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. 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 a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

We’ve created a tool called College Combat that lets you create your own customized comparisons based on the factors that matter the most to you. Test it out by comparing your favorite schools against others you are considering, or bookmark the tool so you can experiment with it later.

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k.

#1

Northern Kentucky University

Highland Heights, Kentucky
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Kentucky For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. NKU is a public institution located in Highland Heights, Kentucky. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 6 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

NKU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at NKU are $17,358, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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