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Most Popular Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Michigan

2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Michigan

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In 2020-2021, 1,654 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a Michigan college or university. This makes it the #17 most popular major in the state.

When it comes to higher education, there are a lot of options for students. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Most Popular Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Michigan to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Michigan to see which master's degree programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Legal Professions program at each school on the list.

Check out the legal professions master's degree programs at these schools if you want to attend one of the most popular in Michigan.

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, MI

Our 2023 rankings named Michigan State University the most popular school in Michigan for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Michigan State is a fairly large public school located in the city of East Lansing.

Women make up 67% of the legal professions majors at the school.

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The in-demand master’s degree programs at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular legal professions schools in Michigan. WMU-Cooley Law School is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Lansing.

About 62% of the students majoring in legal professions at the school are women while 38% are male.

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Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor, U-M is a public college with a fairly large student population.

Women make up 35% of the legal professions majors at the school.

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#4

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

Out of the 4 schools in Michigan that were part of this year’s ranking, Wayne State University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Wayne State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Detroit.

Women make up 67% of the legal professions majors at the school.

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Explore all the Most Popular Legal Professions Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Indiana 1,257
Ohio 1,634
Illinois 2,648
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 4 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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