2023 Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region
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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 Plains States region, there were 188 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,238 and $112,293 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal studies.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region doctor’s degree legal studies students.
Top 1 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Plains States Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Kansas landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Lawrence, Kansas, this large public school awarded 9 degrees to qualified doctorate’s legal studies students in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Legal Studies at University of Kansas
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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
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