2025 Best Legal Research Schools in the Great Lakes Region
4Colleges in the Great Lakes Region
1,517Legal Research Degrees Awarded
$83,633Avg Early-Career Salary
Legal Research is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #114 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
College Factual looked at 4 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Legal Research Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 1,517 degrees in legal research to qualified students.
Your choice of legal research school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Legal Research School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Schools in the Great Lakes Region.
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Best Schools for Legal Research in the Great Lakes Region
The schools below may not offer all types of legal research degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in legal research has to take a look at Loyola University Chicago. Loyola Chicago is a large private not-for-profit university located in the city of Chicago. A Best Colleges rank of #100 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Loyola Chicago is a great university overall.
There were about 278 legal research students who graduated with this degree at Loyola Chicago in the most recent year we have data available. Legal Research degree recipients from Loyola University Chicago get an earnings boost of around $14,650 above the typical income of legal research graduates.
Any student pursuing a degree in legal research needs to check out University of Wisconsin - Madison. UW - Madison is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Madison. A Best Colleges rank of #40 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UW - Madison is a great university overall.
There were approximately 38 legal research students who graduated with this degree at UW - Madison in the most recent year we have data available.
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal research. Located in the city of Cincinnati, UC is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 6th out of 91 schools for overall quality in the state of Ohio.
There were approximately 13 legal research students who graduated with this degree at UC in the most recent data year.
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal research. IUPUI is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Indianapolis. This university ranks 7th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 111 legal research students who graduated with this degree at IUPUI in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
Your choice of legal research school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Legal Research School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
