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2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New York

7 Colleges
$49,849 Avg Salary
$24,990 Avg Student Debt

With 5,735 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions is the #14 most popular major in New York.

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The Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New York ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 7 schools in New York to see which ones were the most popular graduate certificate programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Legal Professions program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named The Graduate Center, CUNY the most popular school in New York for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of New York, The Graduate Center is a public school with a moderately-sized student population.

Women make up 71% of the legal professions majors at the school.

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Out of the 7 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Columbia University in the City of New York landed the # 2 spot on the list. Columbia is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of New York.

About 60% of the students majoring in legal professions at the school are women while 40% are male.

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#3

Syracuse University

Syracuse, NY

Out of the 7 schools in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Syracuse University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Syracuse, Syracuse is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Of the 9 students majoring in legal professions at Syracuse, 33% are male and 67% are female.

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#4

Albany Law School

Albany, NY

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Albany Law School helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular legal professions schools in New York. Albany Law is a small private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Albany.

About 80% of the students majoring in legal professions at the school are women while 20% are male.

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The in-demand graduate certificate programs at St John’s University - New York helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular legal professions schools in New York. STJ is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Queens.

About 33% of the students majoring in legal professions at the school are women while 67% are male.

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#6

New York University

New York, NY

New York University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the most popular places for legal professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the city of New York, NYU is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

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#6

New York Law School

New York, NY

New York Law School ranked #6 on this year’s Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New York list. Located in the large city of New York, New York Law School is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

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Explore all the Most Popular Legal Professions Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
New Jersey 931
Pennsylvania 2,391
Maryland 761
Delaware 48
District of Columbia 2,586

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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