2025 Best Legal Research Master's Degree Schools
If you plan on getting your master's degree in
legal research, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #37 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.
College Factual reviewed 21 schools in the United States to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of legal research. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 10,421 master's degrees in legal research during the 2021-2022 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Legal Research School for Your Master's Degree
The legal research master's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their master's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your master's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How much a school focuses on legal research students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other legal research students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Student Debt - How much debt legal research students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal research related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal research students working on their master's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
The legal research school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Legal Research Master's Degree Schools.
