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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$40,107 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,849 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.

The Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 6 schools in the New England Region to see which graduate certificate 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.

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 graduate certificate.

#1

Champlain College

Burlington, VT

Our 2023 rankings named Champlain College the best value school in the New England Region for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Burlington, Champlain is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Champlain graduate students pay an average of $14,310 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Champlain is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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#2

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Harvard University is a great value for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 per year.

Harvard also made our Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list, coming in at #1.

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#3

Suffolk University

Boston, MA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Suffolk University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the New England Region . Located in the large 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 graduate students at Suffolk are $39,813 a year.

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#4

Vermont Law School

South Royalton, VT

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means Vermont Law School is a great value for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the remote area of South Royalton, VLS is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

VLS graduate students pay an average of $43,345 in tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 6 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the # 5 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is a moderately-sized public school located in the city of Portland.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Southern Maine are $22,968 a year.

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University of Connecticut did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 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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