2023 Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Law for a Doctorate
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Ranked Colleges
610
Degrees Awarded
$59,501
Avg Salary
When it comes to choosing a college, veterans have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Law for a Doctorate” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2020-2021, 36,216 people earned their degree in law, making the major the 28th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, law graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $64,466 and had an average of $19,500 in loans still to pay off.
Across New Jersey, there were 610 law graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,501 and $0 respectively.
This ranking identifies schools with high-quality law programs as well as strong veteran support.
Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the law program at the school, veteran affordability, and veteran population. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Law for a Doctorate
The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey doctor’s degree vets studying law.
Top 1 Best Law Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in New Jersey
Out of the 1 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in New Jersey for Law for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Seton Hall University landed the #1 spot on the list. Seton Hall is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in South Orange, New Jersey. It awarded 223 doctorate’s law degrees in 2020-2021.
Seton Hall not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list.Among the 9,814 students enrolled at Seton Hall University, 27 are GI Bill® students, according to our most recent data. Out of that number, 22 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $15,158. To help with additional expenses, 9 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
[Read full report on veteran student life at Seton Hall]](/colleges/seton-hall-university/student-life/veterans/)
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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