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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Rhode Island

1 Ranked Colleges
143 Degrees Awarded
$19,000 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Rhode Island

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Rhode Island” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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 Rhode Island, there were 257 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,675 and $91,155 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 143 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal professions programs, but they also cost less that 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. 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 a Doctorate in Rhode Island” list to help you make the college decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. We encourage you to try it out and pit your favorite colleges and universities head to head! If you don’t have time right now, you can bookmark it for later.

The colleges and universities below are the best for rhode island doctor’s degree legal professions students.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roger Williams University School of Law. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Rhode Island. This small school is located in Bristol, Rhode Island, and it awarded 143 doctorate’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Roger Williams University School of Law also made our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Rhode Island” list, coming in at #1. Average graduate tuition and fees at Roger Williams University School of Law are $19,036, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Roger Williams University School of Law 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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