Best Legal Research Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Pennsylvania

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Pennsylvania that made our Best Legal Research Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Legal Research School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of legal research for getting your doctor's degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a quality education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

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 doctor'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 doctor'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 doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for Pennsylvania

Unfortunately , we don't have sufficient facts to create a ranking of the top quality schools for legal research in Pennsylvania. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in Pennsylvania that both offer legal research and provided enough information for us to do a detailed analysis.

Instead, take a look at at some of our other Legal Research rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Legal Research ranking.

Best Legal Research Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Legal Research Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	174	13
District of Columbia	81	3

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Legal Research Related Rankings by Major

Legal Research is one of 4 different types of Legal Professions programs to choose from.

Legal Research Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law	9
General Advanced Legal Research/Studies	1
Programs for Foreign Lawyers	1

Most Popular Majors Related to Legal Research

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Law	1,479

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.