2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices
Finding the Best Legal Professions Doctor's Degree School for You
Legal Professions is the #16 most popular major in the country with 61,055 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.
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Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 25 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which doctor'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.
This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.
For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.
Top 10 Best Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools
Our analysis found Purdue University Global to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in the Great Lakes Region . Purdue University Global is a fairly large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.
Purdue University Global graduate students pay an average of $10,582 in tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Great Lakes Region . WMU-Cooley Law School is a small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Lansing.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WMU-Cooley Law School are $14,440 a year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Northern Illinois University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Great Lakes Region . NIU is a large public school located in the suburb of Dekalb.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NIU are $11,390 per year.
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Out of the 25 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Capital University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Capital is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Columbus.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Capital are $13,190 a year.
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The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Loyola University Chicago helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the large city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 a year.
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Out of the 25 schools in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Akron Main Campus landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Akron, University of Akron Main Campus is a public college with a large student population.
University of Akron Main Campus graduate students pay an average of $11,936 in tuition and fees each year.
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University of Wisconsin - Madison did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a doctor’s degree. It came in at #7 on the list. Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public college with a very large student population.
UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $25,501 in tuition and fees each year.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UW - Madison also is in the top 15% of our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
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With a ranking of #8, Marquette University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. Marquette is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Milwaukee.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Marquette are $21,960 a year.
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Northwestern University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree legal professions programs. Located in the city of Evanston, Northwestern is a private not-for-profit college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.
Northwestern did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.
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University of Chicago landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree legal professions programs. UChicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UChicago are $63,936 per year.
UChicago not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #2 on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list.
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Request InformationBest Legal Professions Colleges by State
Explore the best legal professions schools for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Indiana | 1,257 |
| Michigan | 1,654 |
| Ohio | 1,634 |
| Illinois | 2,648 |
| Wisconsin | 748 |
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Legal Professions Related Majors for Legal Professions
Legal Professions Majors to Study
| 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 |
Majors Similar to Legal Professions
| 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 25 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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