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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$41,272 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,390 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is the #16 most popular major in Illinois with 2,648 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Illinois 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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

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

Our analysis found Southern Illinois University Carbondale to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in Illinois. Located in the small city of Carbondale, SIUC is a public school with a large student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at SIUC are $15,240 per year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Southern Illinois University Carbondale

#2

Roosevelt University

Chicago, IL

Out of the 4 schools in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Roosevelt University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Roosevelt is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Roosevelt are $31,493 per year.

Full Legal Professions at Roosevelt University Report

#3

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois list. Northwestern is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Northwestern are $60,768 per year.

Northwestern also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Illinois rankings.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Northwestern University

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Loyola University Chicago helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Illinois. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.

Loyola Chicago undergraduate students pay an average of $47,808 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Legal Professions at Loyola University Chicago Report

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

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 1,257
Michigan 1,654
Ohio 1,634
Wisconsin 748

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 4 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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