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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$37,081 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,849 Avg Salary

With 936 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions is the #15 most popular major in Louisiana.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in Louisiana to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for legal professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our analysis found Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Louisiana. Located in the midsize city of Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Louisiana State University graduate students pay an average of $13,031 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Louisiana State University is ranked #2 for overall quality for legal professions in Louisiana.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Tulane University of Louisiana is a great value for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Tulane is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New Orleans.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Tulane are $61,130 per year.

Tulane also took the #4 spot in our Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in Louisiana rankings.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Tulane University of Louisiana

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Colleges 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
Tennessee 732
Alabama 426
Kentucky 423
Georgia 1,180

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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