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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$19,536 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 1,654 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a Michigan college or university. This makes it the #17 most popular major in the state.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Michigan 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.

Check out the legal professions doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Our analysis found Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Michigan. WMU-Cooley Law School is a small private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Lansing.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at WMU-Cooley Law School are $14,440 per year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at U-M are $25,230 a year.

U-M did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Michigan list.

Full Legal Professions at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor Report

Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Detroit Mercy landed the # 3 spot on the list. Detroit Mercy is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Detroit.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Detroit Mercy are $21,276 a year.

Full Legal Professions at University of Detroit Mercy Report

#4

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Wayne State is a very large public school located in the large city of Detroit.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Wayne State are $18,937 a year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Wayne State University

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

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 1,257
Ohio 1,634
Illinois 2,648
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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