2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Colorado

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 a Master’s in Colorado” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 61,993 people earned their degree in legal professions, making the major the 17th most popular in the United States. 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 Colorado, there were 810 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,556 and $53,358 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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The legal professions school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado”.

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. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree legal professions students.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Colorado

#1

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$52,899 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Denver is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Denver, Colorado. It awarded 61 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

DU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Denver are $52,899, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Legal Professions at University of Denver

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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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