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2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Other Legal Professions & Studies in the Great Lakes Region

5 Ranked Colleges
192 Degrees Awarded
$38,500 Avg Cost*
Schools for a Master's Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2021-2022, 2,371 people earned their degree in other legal professions & studies, making the major the 324th most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 352 other legal professions & studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 192 other legal professions & studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $59,182 and $43,142 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 5 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in other legal professions & studies. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in other legal professions & studies.

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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region”.

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Northwestern University
Evanston, Illinois

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Northwestern University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in Evanston, Illinois, and it awarded 110 masters’s other legal professions & studies degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 99%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 6 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Case Western Reserve University landed the #2 spot on the list. Case Western is located in Cleveland, Ohio and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 31 masters’s other legal professions & studies degrees to qualified students.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools. With a freshman retention rate of 94%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. 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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Loyola University Chicago
Chicago, Illinois

Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Loyola University Chicago landed the #3 spot on the list. Located in Chicago, Illinois, this fairly large private not-for-profit school handed out 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s other legal professions & studies students in 2021-2022.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 88%.

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Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Michigan State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region list. This large school is located in East Lansing, Michigan, and it awarded 24 masters’s other legal professions & studies degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 92%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of 0.8% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Other Legal Professions & Studies Major in the Great Lakes Region. UIUC is a public institution located in Champaign, Illinois. The school has a large population, and it awarded 3 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.

With a freshman retention rate of 93%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Other Legal Professions & Studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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