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Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia

2023 Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$7,360 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,978 Avg Salary

With 152 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, non-professional general legal studies is the #45 most popular major in West Virginia.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

The Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in West Virginia to see which programs offered the best value experiences for non-professional general legal studies students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

Our analysis found American Public University System to be the best value school for non-professional general legal studies students who want to pursue a degree in West Virginia. American Military University is a very large private for-profit school located in the town of Charles Town.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at American Military University are $7,360 a year. Non-Professional General Legal Studies majors at American Military University take out an average of $34,036 in student loans while working on their egree.

American Military University not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia list.

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#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend West Virginia University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia list. WVU is a very large public school located in the small city of Morgantown.

WVU undergraduate students pay an average of $9,144 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

WVU did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our Best Non-Professional Legal Studies Schools in West Virginia list.

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Explore all the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Georgia 13
Virginia 92
North Carolina 2
Florida 398
Tennessee 58
Kentucky 21
South Carolina 0
Louisiana 11
Arkansas 4
Alabama 26
Mississippi 77

One of 4 majors within the area of study, non-professional general legal studies has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Support Services 11,545
Legal Research 6,874
Legal Professions (Other) 2,013

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).
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