2022 Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 865 people earned their degree in American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence, making the major the 514th most popular in the United States.

Across the Plains States region, there were 70 American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 59 American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,438 and $39,783 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence (Income $0-$30k) in the Plains States Region

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

#1 in overall quality

$56,562 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington University in St Louis landed the #1 spot on the list. Saint Louis, Missouri is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence degrees to 58 students in 2019-2020.

WUSTL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Master’s Degree Schools in the Plains States Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at WUSTL are $56,562, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence at WUSTL

#2

University of Kansas

Lawrence, Kansas

$25,007 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Kansas. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Schools for a Master’s in the Plains States Region For Those Making $0-$30k. KU is a large school located in Lawrence, Kansas that handed out 1 masters’s American/U.S. law/legal studies/jurisprudence degrees in 2019-2020.

KU also made our “Best American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence 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 University of Kansas are $25,007.

Read more about American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence at University of Kansas

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence (Income $0-$30k)

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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