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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$2,541 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,801 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 1,307 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #20 most popular major in the state.

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 North Carolina ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for legal professions 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 Professions Associate Degree Colleges.

Our analysis found Central Piedmont Community College to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a associate degree in North Carolina. Central Piedmont Community College is a large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Central Piedmont Community College are $2,792 per year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Central Piedmont Community College also is in the top 10% of our Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in North Carolina ranking.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Central Piedmont Community College

The excellent associate degree programs at Guilford Technical Community College helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in North Carolina. Located in the midsize suburb of Jamestown, Guilford Technical Community College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Guilford Technical Community College are $2,289 a year.

Full Legal Professions at Guilford Technical Community College Report

The excellent associate degree programs at Miller-Motte College Raleigh helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in North Carolina. Located in the large city of Raleigh, MMC Raleigh is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Miller-Motte College Raleigh

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
West Virginia 330
South Carolina 526
Florida 3,659
Virginia 2,055
Arkansas 284
Mississippi 439
Louisiana 936
Alabama 426
Kentucky 423
Georgia 1,180
Tennessee 732

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 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).
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