2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in District of Columbia

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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in District of Columbia” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 61,055 people earned their degree in legal professions, making the major the 16th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,649 and had an average of $28,699 in loans still to pay off.

Across District of Columbia, there were 2,586 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,717 and $30,500 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $47,584 and $27,317 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in District of Columbia” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their legal professions program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in District of Columbia

The colleges and universities below are the best for district of columbia bachelor’s degree legal professions students.

Top 2 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in District of Columbia

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University of the District of Columbia
Washington, District of Columbia

#8 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the District of Columbia. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in District of Columbia list. This small school is located in Washington, District of Columbia, and it awarded 26 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate 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.

Read more about Legal Professions at University of the District of Columbia

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American University
Washington, District of Columbia

#3 overall quality in District of Columbia

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in District of Columbia. The American University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school situated in Washington, District of Columbia. It awarded 51 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at The American University

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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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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