If you plan on majoring in legal research, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #114 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
There was only one school in California to review for the 2025 Best Legal Research Schools in California ranking.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Legal Research Schools in California list to help you make the college decision.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the legal research degree levels they offer.
University of California - Berkeley is a good choice for students pursuing a degree in legal research. Located in the city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their degree from the legal research program report average early career earnings of $60,003.
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).