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2022 Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

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Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor's in California For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Legal Assistant/Paralegal is the 123rd most popular major in the country with 9,938 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across California, there were 1,330 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 21 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,907 and $21,546 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal assistant/paralegal programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal assistant/paralegal program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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The paralegal 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 “Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k”.

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Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k.

#1

National University

La Jolla, California
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in California For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, National University landed the #1 spot on the list. National University is a private not-for-profit institution located in La Jolla, California. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

National University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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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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