2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in New York

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in New York” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Legal Studies is the 195th most popular major in the country with 3,976 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across New York, there were 459 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,893 and $48,678 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in New York” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their legal studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in New York

The colleges and universities below are the best for new york master’s degree legal studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in New York

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Pace University - New York
New York, New York

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Pace University - New York. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in New York list. This fairly large school is located in New York, New York, and it awarded 15 masters’s legal studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 1.9% 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 Pace University

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Touro College
New York, New York

Top 15% overall quality in New York

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in New York that were part of this year’s ranking, Touro College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in New York, New York, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal studies students in 2021-2022.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 87%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one.

Read full report on Legal Studies at Touro

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

• *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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