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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Legal Studies is the 195th most popular major in the country with 3,976 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across West Virginia, there were 146 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 71 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,695 and $24,033 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s 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.
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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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia”.
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, Alderson Broaddus University landed the #1 spot on the list. Alderson Broaddus University is a small school located in Philippi, West Virginia that handed out 1 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend American Public University System. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in West Virginia. Located in Charles Town, West Virginia, this large private for-profit school handed out 70 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
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