2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Oregon

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Oregon for a Master’s” 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 Oregon, there were 515 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,668 and $22,896 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 26 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,963 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Oregon for a Master’s” ranking analyzed 3 colleges that offered a degree in legal professions. To top this list, a school must have a successful legal professions program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Oregon for a Master’s

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

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Oregon

1

Lewis & Clark College
Portland, Oregon

#4 overall quality in Oregon

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis & Clark College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Oregon for a Master’s list. Lewis and Clark College is a small school located in Portland, Oregon that handed out 16 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Lewis and Clark College

2

Willamette University
Salem, Oregon

#12 overall quality in Oregon

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Oregon for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Willamette University landed the #2 spot on the list. Willamette University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Salem, Oregon. It awarded 9 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read more about Legal Professions at Willamette University

3

University of Oregon
Eugene, Oregon

#1 overall quality in Oregon

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Oregon for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Oregon landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Oregon is a large public school situated in Eugene, Oregon. It awarded 1 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.1% 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 UO 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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