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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$22,044 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

With 1,180 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions is the #17 most popular major in Georgia.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

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 Georgia to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 4 schools in Georgia 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. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, GA

Our 2023 rankings named University of Georgia the best value school in Georgia for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Athens, UGA is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UGA are $11,156 a year.

UGA also made our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia list, coming in at #5.

Read full report on Legal Professions at University of Georgia

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia list. Georgia State is a very large public school located in the city of Atlanta.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Georgia State are $9,292 per year.

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#3

Emory University

Atlanta, GA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia list. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Atlanta.

Emory graduate students pay an average of $45,684 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

Read full report on Legal Professions at Emory University

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School is a great value for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. AJMLS is a small private for-profit school located in the city of Atlanta.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School

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

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 1,307
West Virginia 330
Florida 3,659
Virginia 2,055
Arkansas 284
Mississippi 439
South Carolina 526
Louisiana 936
Alabama 426
Kentucky 423
Tennessee 732

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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