2022 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

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Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the 154th most popular major in the country with 4,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,672 and had an average of $34,776 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 782 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,956 and $29,878 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 12 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,733 and $16,201 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great non-professional general legal studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Income $30-$48k) in the Middle Atlantic Region

#1

Anne Arundel Community College

Arnold, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$13,702 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Anne Arundel Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Arnold, Maryland, this fairly large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified associates’s non-professional general legal studies students in 2019-2020.

AACC did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $13,702 for Middle Atlantic Region Associate Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend AACC.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Income $30-$48k)

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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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