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2022 Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k

3 Ranked Colleges
328 Degrees Awarded
$36,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master's in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Missouri, there were 433 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $61,328 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 328 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $51,588 and $39,214 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal research. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal research programs and 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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 Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k” 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 missouri master’s degree legal research students whose families make $48-$75k.

#1

Washington University in St Louis

Saint Louis, Missouri

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Washington University in St Louis. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k. Washington University in St Louis is a fairly large school located in Saint Louis, Missouri that handed out 306 masters’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

WUSTL not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at WUSTL are $56,562, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Legal Research at Washington University in St Louis

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Missouri - Columbia landed the #2 spot on the list. Mizzou is a large school located in Columbia, Missouri that handed out 5 masters’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

Mizzou not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Missouri - Columbia are $27,193.

Full University of Missouri - Columbia Legal Research Report

#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Missouri - Kansas City. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Legal Research Schools for a Master’s in Missouri For Those Making $48-$75k. UMKC is a fairly large public school situated in Kansas City, Missouri. It awarded 16 masters’s legal research degrees in 2019-2020.

UMKC also made our “Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Missouri” list, coming in at #2. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Missouri - Kansas City are $26,699.

Read more about Legal Research at UMKC

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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