Best Legal Research Doctor’s Degree Colleges in Massachusetts

Unfortunately, there were no schools in Massachusetts that made our Best Legal Research Doctor's Degree Schools in Massachusetts 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

The legal research doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality legal research program can vary widely even among the top schools. 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 account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal research students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal research students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for legal research to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• 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 Massachusetts

Due to absent data, we couldn't provide you with the legal research quality ranking. This is typically due to there not being enough schools in Massachusetts that both offer legal research and provided enough information for us to do a proper 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 New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Connecticut	93	12

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Rankings in Majors Related to Legal Research

One of 4 majors within the Legal Professions area of study, Legal Research has other similar majors worth exploring.

Legal Research Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
General Advanced Legal Research/Studies	211
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	3

Majors Similar to Legal Research

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Law	1,987
Legal Professions (Other)	25

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.