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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

7 Colleges
$19,781 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$45,674 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 1,307 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a North Carolina college or university. This makes it the #20 most popular major in the state.

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 Schools in North Carolina ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 7 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value 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 following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Professions Colleges.

Our analysis found Central Piedmont Community College to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a degree in North Carolina. Central Piedmont Community College is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Central Piedmont Community College are $2,792 per year.

Central Piedmont Community College excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina list.

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$2,289 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Guilford Technical Community College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the suburb of Jamestown, Guilford Technical Community College is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Guilford Technical Community College undergraduate students pay an average of $2,289 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the small city of Chapel Hill, UNC Chapel Hill is a public school with a fairly large student population.

UNC Chapel Hill undergraduate students pay an average of $9,028 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, UNC Chapel Hill is ranked #4 for overall quality for legal professions in North Carolina.

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$6,644 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend North Carolina Central University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina list. Located in the large city of Durham, North Carolina Central University is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at North Carolina Central University are $6,644 per year.

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#5

Campbell University

Buies Creek, NC
$38,160 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Campbell University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best legal professions schools in North Carolina. Located in the fringe town of Buies Creek, Campbell is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Campbell are $38,160 a year.

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#6

Wake Forest University

Winston-Salem, NC

With a ranking of #6, Wake Forest University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for legal professions students. Located in the city of Winston-Salem, Wake Forest University is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

Wake Forest University undergraduate students pay an average of $59,770 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Wake Forest University also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Professions Schools in North Carolina rankings.

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Miller-Motte College Raleigh landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value legal professions programs. Located in the city of Raleigh, MMC Raleigh is a private for-profit college with a fairly small student population.

Legal Professions majors at MMC Raleigh take out an average of $32,297 in student loans while working on their egree.

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

State Degrees Awarded
West Virginia 330
South Carolina 526
Florida 3,659
Virginia 2,055
Arkansas 284
Mississippi 439
Louisiana 936
Alabama 426
Kentucky 423
Georgia 1,180
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 7 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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