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2023 Best Value Law Schools in Michigan

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$16,196 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$72,047 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Law School for You

With 1,285 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, law is the #19 most popular major in Michigan.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

The Best Value Law Schools in Michigan ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Michigan to see which ones offered the best value programs for law students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Law Schools in Michigan

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for law majors pursuing a .

Best Michigan Schools for Affordable Quality in Law

Our 2023 rankings named Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School the best value school in Michigan for law students. WMU-Cooley Law School is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Lansing.

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$17,193 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Michigan - Ann Arbor. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Law Schools in Michigan list. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at U-M are $17,193 per year.

U-M did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Law Schools in Michigan list.

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$30,154 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Detroit Mercy landed the # 3 spot on the list. Detroit Mercy is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Detroit.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Detroit Mercy are $30,154 a year.

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#4

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI
$15,199 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Wayne State University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Law Schools in Michigan list. Wayne State is a very large public school located in the city of Detroit.

Wayne State undergraduate students pay an average of $15,199 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Law Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Value Law Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Ohio 1,015
Illinois 1,700
Indiana 599
Wisconsin 463

Law is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Law

Related Major Annual Graduates
Legal Support Services 11,545
Legal Research 6,874
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 4,407
Legal Professions (Other) 2,013

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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