If you pursue a degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #28 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Illinois to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of law. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,783 degrees in law annually.
Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Law Schools in Illinois list, to help you choose the best school for you.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the law degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student pursuing a degree in law has to check out Loyola University Chicago. Located in the city of Chicago, Loyola Chicago is a private not-for-profit university with a large student population.
Degree recipients from the law degree program at Loyola University Chicago get $6,982 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.
Southern Illinois University Carbondale is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in law. SIUC is a fairly large public university located in the town of Carbondale.
Graduates who receive their degree from the law program make an average of $54,507 in their early career salary.
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).