2024 Best Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

You'll be studying one of the lesser sought-after majors if you pursue a Bachelor's Degree in legal professions. It is ranked #30 out of 38 major degree programs in terms of popularity. As such, your educational options may be more limited than if you were in a more popular field.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to determine which ones were the best for legal professions students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 96 bachelor's degrees in legal professions during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their bachelor's degree from the school. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their bachelor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on legal professions students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal professions students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How much debt legal professions students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal professions related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for legal professions students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Legal Professions in New Jersey

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for legal professions students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Bachelor's in Legal Professions

1

Montclair State University
Montclair, NJ

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

27 Annual Graduates

Montclair State University is a good decision for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal professions. Located in the large suburb of Montclair, Montclair State is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in legal professions from Montclair State University

2

Berkeley College - Woodland Park
Woodland Park, NJ

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Berkeley College - Woodland Park is one of the best schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in legal professions. Located in the suburb of Woodland Park, Berkeley College - Woodland Park is a private for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in legal professions from Berkeley College - Woodland Park

Best Legal Professions Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Legal Professions Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Pennsylvania	37	218
New York	37	504
Maryland	33	136
Delaware	30	33
District of Columbia	28	77

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Legal Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Legal Professions (Other)	57
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	39

Majors Similar to Legal Professions

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	1,887

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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