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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$18,412 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,390 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 761 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a Maryland college or university. This makes it the #19 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'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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Maryland 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 Maryland Global Campus the best value school in Maryland for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. UMGC is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Adelphi.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UMGC are $7,704 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UMGC is ranked #3 for overall quality for legal professions in Maryland.

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#2

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at University of Baltimore helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Maryland. Located in the large city of Baltimore, UB is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UB are $9,364 a year.

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#3

Stevenson University

Stevenson, MD

The excellent bachelor’s degree programs at Stevenson University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Maryland. Located in the rural area of Stevenson, Stevenson is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Stevenson undergraduate students pay an average of $38,168 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 931
Pennsylvania 2,391
New York 5,735
Delaware 48
District of Columbia 2,586

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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