2025 Best Legal Studies Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
188Legal 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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for legal studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 188 degrees in legal studies to qualified students.
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 picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Legal Studies Schools in the Plains States Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Best Schools for Legal Studies in the Plains States 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.
Hamline University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal studies. Located in the city of Saint Paul, Hamline is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 20th out of 52 colleges for overall quality in the state of Minnesota.
There were approximately 36 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Hamline in the most recent year we have data available.
Webster University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in legal studies. Located in the large suburb of Saint Louis, Webster is a private not-for-profit university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #273 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Webster is a great university overall.
There were roughly 28 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent data year.
Bellevue University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal studies. Bellevue University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large suburb of Bellevue. This university ranks 3rd out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were approximately 38 legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Bellevue 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.
