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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$42,717 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,390 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.

The Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the Far Western US Region to see which bachelor's 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.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of California - Berkeley the best value school in the Far Western US Region for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UC Berkeley are $43,980 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UC Berkeley also did well on our Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Legal Professions at University of California - Berkeley

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Tacoma Campus. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. Located in the midsize city of Tacoma, UW Tacoma is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

UW Tacoma undergraduate students pay an average of $40,026 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, UW Tacoma is in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list.

Full Legal Professions at University of Washington - Tacoma Campus Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Washington - Seattle Campus. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. UW Seattle is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Seattle.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at UW Seattle are $39,906 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UW Seattle also did well on our Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. It’s in the top 10% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Full Legal Professions at University of Washington - Seattle Campus Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Santa Cruz. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. UC Santa Cruz is a fairly large public school located in the small city of Santa Cruz.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UC Santa Cruz are $43,824 per year.

Full Legal Professions at University of California - Santa Cruz Report

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Far Western US Region . Humphreys University is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Stockton.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Humphreys University are $14,580 a year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses

#6

University of La Verne

La Verne, CA

With a ranking of #6, University of La Verne did quite well on this year’s best value schools for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the suburb of La Verne, ULV is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at ULV are $45,850 per year.

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Explore the best legal professions colleges 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 6 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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