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2023 Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$35,269 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,103 Avg Salary

Legal Research is the #107 most popular major in the country with 6,874 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Plains States Region 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.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Colleges.

#1

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, ND

Our analysis found University of North Dakota to be the best value school for legal research students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the Plains States Region . Located in the city of Grand Forks, UND is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UND graduate students pay an average of $18,968 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Missouri - Columbia. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. Located in the city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public college with a very large student population.

Mizzou graduate students pay an average of $28,550 in tuition and fees each year.

Mizzou excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. WUSTL is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.

WUSTL graduate students pay an average of $58,288 in tuition and fees each year.

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Explore the best legal research schools for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 411
Minnesota 91
Kansas 10
Iowa 6
Nebraska 11
North Dakota 4
South Dakota 8

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 3 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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