by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Legal Research is the 114th most popular major in the country with 12,336 degrees awarded in 2021-2022. 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 Southeast region, there were 1,480 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $64,135 and $43,444 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 106 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal research. That schools that top this list have a program in legal research in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree legal research students.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Florida Memorial University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region list. Miami Gardens, Florida is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal research degrees to 26 students in 2021-2022.
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Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, James Madison University landed the #2 spot on the list. JMU is a large school located in Harrisonburg, Virginia that handed out 80 bachelors’s legal research degrees in 2021-2022.
With a freshman retention rate of 91%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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