2023 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Rhode Island

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 “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions is the 16th most popular major in the country with 61,055 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. 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 Rhode Island, there were 270 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,431 and $20,900 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 62 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,152 and $15,702 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal professions. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in legal professions.

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Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate”.

Top 2 Most Popular Associate Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Rhode Island

1

Roger Williams University
Bristol, Rhode Island

#6 overall quality in Rhode Island

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Roger Williams University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate list. RWU is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Bristol, Rhode Island. It awarded 35 associates’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.7% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Full Roger Williams University Legal Professions Report

2

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, Rhode Island

#7 overall quality in Rhode Island

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Rhode Island for an Associate that were part of this year’s ranking, Community College of Rhode Island landed the #2 spot on the list. CCRI is located in Warwick, Rhode Island and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 27 associates’s legal professions degrees to qualified students.

Full CCRI Legal Professions Report

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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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