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Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region

2023 Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$26,407 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,801 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 Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the New England Region to see which associate degree programs offered the best value experiences for legal professions 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.

#1

Post University

Waterbury, CT

Our 2023 rankings named Post University the best value school in the New England Region for legal professions students working on their associate degree. Post University is a large private for-profit school located in the medium-sized suburb of Waterbury.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Post University are $15,458 a year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the large suburb of Bristol, RWU is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at RWU are $37,355 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, RWU is ranked #2 for overall quality for legal professions in the New England Region .

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Explore the best legal professions colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Hampshire 110
Maine 104
Rhode Island 259
Massachusetts 2,570
Connecticut 682
Vermont 358

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.

  • 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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