Find Schools

Study Area & Zipcode

Find Schools Near

2022 Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

4 Ranked Colleges
180 Degrees Awarded
$17,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Legal Studies is the 225th most popular major in the country with 3,546 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 293 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 180 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,075 and $25,381 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in legal studies. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

#1

Northwestern University

Evanston, Illinois
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Northwestern University is a large school located in Evanston, Illinois that handed out 20 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Northwestern also made our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #1. The yearly cost to attend Northwestern is $16,784 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $75-$110k.

The student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The impressive student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.

Full Northwestern University Legal Studies Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k. University of Wisconsin - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 97 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison also made our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” list, coming in at #2. It costs about $21,860 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 95%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The low student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

Read full report on Legal Studies at UW - Madison

#4 in overall quality

Out of the 4 schools in the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Illinois at Springfield landed the #3 spot on the list. University of Illinois at Springfield is located in Springfield, Illinois and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s legal studies degrees to qualified students.

UIS also took the #4 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $17,342 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend UIS.

Read full report on Legal Studies at UIS

#4

Oakland University

Rochester Hills, Michigan
#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oakland University. It ranked #4 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Rochester Hills, Michigan is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s legal studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

Oakland also took the #3 spot in our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. It costs about $15,424 for great lakes region bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $75-$110k per year to attend Oakland University.

Read more about Legal Studies at Oakland University

Switch to a Different Ranking Method

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

Credits

  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The wub.

Featured Law Degree Schools

Find Schools Near You