by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 12,336 people earned their degree in legal research, making the major the 114th most popular in the United States. In , legal research graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $66,544 and had an average of $65,720 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 3,612 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $71,516 and $68,578 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 49 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,660 and $23,761 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in legal research. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal research.
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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 “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region”.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree legal research students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Baltimore. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. This small school is located in Baltimore, Maryland, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Drexel University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal research degrees to 33 students in 2021-2022.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 90%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arcadia University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region. Located in Glenside, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 0 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal research students in 2021-2022.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 1.3%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Middle Atlantic Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Le Moyne College landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Syracuse, New York, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 0 degrees to qualified bachelors’s legal research students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.8%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
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