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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
120 Degrees Awarded
$21,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Getting Aid” ranking.

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 Nevada, there were 210 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,900 and $94,197 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 120 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $84,833 and $191,671 respectively.

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.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Getting Aid.

#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #1 spot on the list. This large school is located in Las Vegas, Nevada, and it awarded 120 doctorate’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UNLV, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Nevada” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNLV are $21,962, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Legal Professions at University of Nevada - Las Vegas

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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