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Best Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

2023 Best Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia

2 Colleges
$36,390 Avg Salary
$35,839 Avg Student Debt

In 2020-2021, legal professions students earned 2,586 degrees and certificates from a District of Columbia school, making the subject the 4th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in District of Columbia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in District of Columbia to see which ones offered the best bachelor's degree programs for students. To come up with a school's ranking, we analyzed numerous factors related to post-graduation wages, the quality of education offered by the school, average accumulated student debt, and more.

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Check out the legal professions bachelor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best education that money can buy.

#1

American University

Washington, DC

Our 2023 rankings named American University the best school in District of Columbia for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. The American University is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Washington.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of the District of Columbia. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in District of Columbia list. Located in the city of Washington, University of the District of Columbia is a public college with a small student population.

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

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 931
Pennsylvania 2,391
New York 5,735
Maryland 761
Delaware 48

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Support Services 11,545
Legal Research 6,874
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 4,407
Legal Professions (Other) 2,013

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 142,610
Public Administration & Social Service 98,583
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 73,813
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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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