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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$33,922 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is the #23 most popular major in Colorado with 616 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.

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 Colorado ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Colorado to see which ones offered the best value doctor'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 colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named University of Colorado Boulder the best value school in Colorado for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. CU - Boulder is a fairly large public school located in the city of Boulder.

CU - Boulder graduate students pay an average of $13,901 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

CU - Boulder not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #4 on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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#2

University of Denver

Denver, CO

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Denver is a great value for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. DU is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Denver.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at DU are $53,943 a year.

DU not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Colorado list.

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State Degrees Awarded
Utah 323
Montana 85
Idaho 163
Wyoming 86

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 2 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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