Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Advanced Legal Research/Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The advanced legal research/studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality advanced legal research/studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to general advanced legal research/studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general advanced legal research/studies students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general advanced legal research/studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general advanced legal research/studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Because of absent data, we could not show you the general advanced legal research/studies quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer general advanced legal research/studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, look at at some of our other General Advanced Legal Research/Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for General Advanced Legal Research/Studies ranking.

Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best general advanced legal research/studies colleges for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	7
Pennsylvania	311	1
District of Columbia	143	2

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General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Related Rankings by Major

General Advanced Legal Research/Studies is one of 24 different types of Legal Research programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law	9
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	6
International Law & Legal Studies	5
Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources Law	2
Programs for Foreign Lawyers	1
Criminal Law and Procedure	1

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.