2025 Best Legal Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

Ranked #119 in popularity, legal studies is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for legal studies students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 122 bachelor's degrees in legal studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal studies students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal studies students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Best Legal Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Legal Studies in the Plains States Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal studies.

Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Legal Studies

1

Hamline University
Saint Paul, MN

20 Annual Graduates

Hamline University is a good choice for individuals pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal studies. Hamline is a small private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Saint Paul.More information about a bachelor’s in legal studies from Hamline University

2

Bellevue University
Bellevue, NE

29 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in legal studies has to check out Bellevue University. Located in the suburb of Bellevue, Bellevue University is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in legal studies from Bellevue University

Best Legal Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best legal studies schools for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	11
Minnesota	446	46
Iowa	403	41
Kansas	352	13
Nebraska	331	47

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Rankings in Majors Related to Legal Studies

Legal Studies is one of 2 different types of Non-Professional General Legal Studies programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Legal Studies

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Pre-Law	8

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
• Credit for the banner image above goes to The wub. More about our data sources and methodologies.