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2022 Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

7 Ranked Colleges
159 Degrees Awarded
$16,700 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor's in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k

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 “Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions (Other) is the 196th most popular major in the country with 2,565 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal professions (other) graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $51,722 and had an average of $45,823 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Middle Atlantic region, there were 534 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,489 and $36,954 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 159 legal professions (other) graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,278 and $24,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking looked at 7 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal professions (other). This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions (other) programs that also have a lower cost than 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 professions (other) program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

#1

Peirce College

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
#7 in overall quality

Out of the 7 schools in the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Peirce College landed the #1 spot on the list. Peirce is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 1 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Peirce also made our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #7. It costs about $8,350 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Peirce.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 100%.

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#2

Montclair State University

Montclair, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Montclair State University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Montclair, New Jersey is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to 20 students in 2019-2020.

Montclair State also took the #3 spot in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. It costs about $14,913 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Montclair State.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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#3

Berkeley College - Woodland Park

Woodland Park, New Jersey

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berkeley College - Woodland Park. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Berkeley College - Woodland Park is located in Woodland Park, New Jersey and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 17 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

Berkeley College - Woodland Park also made our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #6. The yearly cost to attend Berkeley College - Woodland Park is $14,202 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#4

Berkeley College - New York

New York, New York

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Berkeley College - New York. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Berkeley College - New York is located in New York, New York and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 45 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to qualified students.

Berkeley College - New York also made our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list, coming in at #2. The estimated yearly cost for Berkeley College - New York is $14,661 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

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#5

Temple University

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Temple University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s other legal professions degrees to 30 students in 2019-2020.

Temple did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” list. It costs about $18,879 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students whose families make $30-$48k per year to attend Temple University.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 87%.

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#6

Central Penn College

Summerdale, Pennsylvania

Central Penn College came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k ranking. Central Penn is a small private for-profit school situated in Summerdale, Pennsylvania. It awarded 10 bachelors’s other legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Central Penn also took the #5 spot in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Central Penn is $20,927 for middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

With a student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed.

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#4 in overall quality

St John’s University - New York ranked #7 on this year’s Best Value Other Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Middle Atlantic Region For Those Making $30-$48k list. St John’s University - New York is a private not-for-profit institution located in Queens, New York. The school has a large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our middle atlantic region bachelor’s degree other legal professions students whose families make $30-$48k list, STJ has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Legal Professions (Other) Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend St John’s University - New York is $25,253 for Middle Atlantic Region Bachelor’s Degree Other Legal Professions students whose families make $30-$48k.

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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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