2025 Best Legal Studies Schools in the New England Region
3Colleges in the New England Region
319Legal Studies Degrees Awarded
If you plan on majoring in legal studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #195 in the country in terms of popularity. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in the New England Region to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of legal studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 319 degrees in legal studies annually.
Your choice of legal studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Legal Studies School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Legal Studies Schools in the New England Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Legal Studies in the New England Region
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the legal studies degree levels they offer.
University of Massachusetts Amherst is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal studies. Located in the small city of Amherst, UMass Amherst is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #60 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UMass Amherst is a great university overall.
There were approximately 110 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at UMass Amherst in the most recent year we have data available.
Suffolk University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in legal studies. Suffolk is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Boston. This university ranks 18th out of 63 colleges for overall quality in the state of Massachusetts.
There were approximately 86 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Suffolk in the most recent year we have data available.
It is hard to beat Post University if you want to pursue a degree in legal studies. Post University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the midsize city of Waterbury. This university ranks 16th out of 18 colleges for overall quality in the state of Connecticut.
There were approximately 69 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Post University in the most recent data year.
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).
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Your choice of legal studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. For our Best Overall Legal Studies School rankings, we roll up the results of our degree-level rankings, weighted by the number of degrees awarded at that level.
