2022 Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Plains States region, there were 175 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,926 and $43,266 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 15 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in non-professional general legal studies. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality non-professional general legal studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree non-professional general legal studies students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Income $48-$75k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Webster University

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$13,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Webster University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Webster University is located in Saint Louis, Missouri and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 13 masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to qualified students.

Webster not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Webster are $13,500, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#2

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa

$11,932 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drake University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Des Moines, Iowa is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to 2 students in 2019-2020.

Drake also took the #0 spot in our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Drake are $11,932, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (Income $48-$75k)

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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