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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$37,613 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.

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 the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's 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 Bachelor's Degree Colleges.

#1

Post University

Waterbury, CT

Our analysis found Post University to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a bachelor’s degree in the New England Region . Post University is a large private for-profit school located in the midsize suburb of Waterbury.

Post University undergraduate students pay an average of $15,458 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Roger Williams University is a great value for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the large suburb of Bristol, RWU is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at RWU are $37,355 a year.

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#3

Suffolk University

Boston, MA

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Suffolk University is a great value for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. Located in the city of Boston, Suffolk is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Suffolk are $41,648 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Massachusetts Amherst. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Located in the large suburb of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public school with a very large student population.

UMass Amherst undergraduate students pay an average of $36,964 in tuition and fees each year.

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#5

Quinnipiac University

Hamden, CT

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Quinnipiac University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list. Quinnipiac is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Hamden.

Out-of-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Quinnipiac are $51,270 per year.

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#6

Champlain College

Burlington, VT

Champlain College did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a bachelor’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the small city of Burlington, Champlain is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state undergraduate student at Champlain are $42,984 a year.

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Explore the best legal professions schools 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 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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