2025 Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools in the Plains States Region
3Colleges in the Plains States Region
197Non-Professional General Legal Studies Degrees Awarded
$42,256Avg Early-Career Salary
A degree in non-professional general legal studies is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #143 out of 395 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. 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 non-professional general legal studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 197 degrees in non-professional general legal studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Non-Professional General Legal Studies School
Your choice of non-professional general legal studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for non-professional general legal studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Non-Professional General Legal Studies Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Non-Professional General 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 Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Plains States Region
The schools below may not offer all types of non-professional general legal studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Plains States Region Schools in Non-Professional General Legal Studies
It is hard to beat Hamline University if you want to pursue a degree in non-professional general legal studies. Located in the large 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 non-professional general legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Hamline in the most recent data year. Students who receive their degree from the non-professional general legal studies program make around $40,059 for their early career.
Webster University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in non-professional general 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 schools nationwide means Webster is a great university overall.
There were roughly 28 non-professional general legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Webster in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in non-professional general legal studies has to look into Bellevue University. Bellevue University is a large private not-for-profit university located in the suburb of Bellevue. This university ranks 3rd out of 19 colleges for overall quality in the state of Nebraska.
There were roughly 38 non-professional general legal studies students who graduated with this degree at Bellevue University in the most recent year we have data available. Degree recipients from the non-professional general legal studies program at Bellevue University make $2,583 more than the standard college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
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 non-professional general legal studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for non-professional general legal studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
