by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado” ranking.
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 Colorado, there were 745 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $44,051 and $27,745 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 69 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,172 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal professions. That schools that top this list have a program in legal professions in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Denver. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado list. University of Denver is a fairly large school located in Denver, Colorado that handed out 48 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Colorado Boulder. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado list. This large school is located in Boulder, Colorado, and it awarded 21 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.4%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
Read full report on Legal Professions at University of Colorado Boulder
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Taft University System. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Professions Major in Colorado list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this small private for-profit school handed out 26 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal professions students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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