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2022 Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
92 Degrees Awarded
$25,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master's in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Research is the 89th most popular major in the country with 9,738 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $64,635 and had an average of $65,122 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Jersey, there were 92 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $94,300 and $41,000 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 92 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,690 and $39,821 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal research programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the legal research program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for new jersey master’s degree legal research students whose families make $0-$30k.

#1

Seton Hall University

South Orange, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Seton Hall University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in New Jersey For Those Making $0-$30k. This medium-sized school is located in South Orange, New Jersey, and it awarded 92 masters’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

Seton Hall not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in New Jersey” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Seton Hall are $25,172, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full Seton Hall University Legal Research Report

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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