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2023 Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$25,450 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,103 Avg Salary

Legal Research is the #95 most popular major in Pennsylvania with 382 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Pennsylvania to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for legal research students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Check out the legal research graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

#1

Villanova University

Villanova, PA

Our analysis found Villanova University to be the best value school for legal research students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Pennsylvania. Located in the suburb of Villanova, Villanova is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Villanova are $21,199 a year.

Villanova did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in Pennsylvania list.

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#2

Temple University

Philadelphia, PA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Temple University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in Pennsylvania. Temple is a very large public school located in the city of Philadelphia.

Temple graduate students pay an average of $18,278 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Pitt are $25,248 a year. The average amount in student loans that legal research majors at Pitt take out while working on their Graduate Certificate is $23,713.

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#4

Drexel University

Philadelphia, PA

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Drexel University is a great value for legal research students working on their graduate certificate. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Philadelphia.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Drexel are $37,074 a year.

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 590
Maryland 57
New Jersey 77
District of Columbia 481

One of 4 majors within the area of study, legal research has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Support Services 11,545
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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