2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Getting Aid” 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree 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.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for plains states region master’s degree non-professional general legal studies students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Plains States Region (With Aid)

#1

Webster University

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$13,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$42,682 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Webster University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid list. Webster is a medium-sized school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 13 masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Webster did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #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.

Full Webster University Non-Professional General Legal Studies Report

#2

Drake University

Des Moines, Iowa

$11,932 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Drake University landed the #2 spot on the list. 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 made our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list, coming in at #0. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Drake are $11,932.

Full Drake University Non-Professional General Legal Studies Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies (With Aid)

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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