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2023 Best Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region

25 Colleges
$60,062 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is the #16 most popular major in the country with 61,055 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. 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 Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking. This report analyzed 25 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which ones offered the best master's degree programs for students. Factors related to overall quality of the school, post-graduation earnings, average student debt, and more accumulated were considered when coming up with this list.

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

#1

Stanford University

Stanford, CA

Our 2023 rankings named Stanford University the best school in the Far Western US Region for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Stanford is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Stanford.

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Out of the 25 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Berkeley landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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#3

University of San Diego

San Diego, CA

Out of the 25 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of San Diego landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of San Diego, USD is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

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Out of the 25 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Los Angeles landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, UCLA is a public school with a fairly large student population.

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Out of the 25 schools in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Golden Gate University - San Francisco landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large city of San Francisco, Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

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University of Washington - Seattle Campus did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. UW Seattle is a very large public school located in the city of Seattle.

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#7

Santa Clara University

Santa Clara, CA

Santa Clara University ranked #7 on this year’s Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. SCU is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Santa Clara.

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University of California - Irvine landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree legal professions programs. Located in the city of Irvine, UC Irvine is a public school with a very large student population.

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California Western School of Law landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree legal professions programs. California Western is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of San Diego.

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University of California - Davis landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best master’s degree legal professions programs. Located in the small suburb of Davis, UC Davis is a public school with a very large student population.

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Explore the best legal professions schools for a specific state in the Far Western US region.

State Degrees Awarded
California 6,896
Washington 892
Oregon 506
Hawaii 128
Nevada 265
Alaska 32

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 25 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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