by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,976 people earned their degree in legal studies, making the major the 195th most popular in the United States.
Across the New England region, there were 319 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 41 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,012 and $13,730 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal studies. That schools that top this list have a program in legal studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Post University landed the #1 spot on the list. Waterbury, Connecticut is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out associates’s legal studies degrees to 41 students in 2021-2022.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of New Haven. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the New England Region list. University of New Haven is located in West Haven, Connecticut and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 associates’s legal studies degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies