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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$13,126 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,075 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is the #16 most popular major in Illinois with 2,648 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Legal Professions Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Illinois to see which undergraduate 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. 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 undergraduate certificate.

Our analysis found Lewis and Clark Community College to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a undergraduate certificate in Illinois. Lewis and Clark Community College is a small public school located in the small suburb of Godfrey.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Lewis and Clark Community College are $9,552 per year.

Full Legal Professions at Lewis and Clark Community College Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Stautzenberger College - Rockford Career College. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Undergraduate Certificate Schools in Illinois list. Stautzenberger College - Rockford Career College is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Rockford.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Stautzenberger College - Rockford Career College are $16,699 a year.

Full Legal Professions at Stautzenberger College - Rockford Career College Report

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 1,257
Michigan 1,654
Ohio 1,634
Wisconsin 748

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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