2024 Best Legal Professions (Other) Schools in Pennsylvania
3Colleges in Pennsylvania
111Other Legal Professions Degrees Awarded
$41,575Avg Early-Career Salary
Legal Professions (Other) is about average in terms of popularity for degree programs. That is, it ranks #200 out of the 395 majors across the country that we analyze each year. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for legal professions (other) students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 111 degrees in legal professions (other) to qualified students.
Your choice of legal professions (other) school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for legal professions (other) schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Legal Professions (Other) Rankings by Degree Level
The other legal professions 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 the Best Legal Professions (Other) Schools in Pennsylvania.
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Best Schools for Legal Professions (Other) in Pennsylvania
The schools below may not offer all types of other legal professions degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Top Pennsylvania Schools in Other Legal Professions
University of Pittsburgh - Pittsburgh Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal professions (other). Located in the large city of Pittsburgh, Pitt is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #79 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Pitt is a great university overall.
There were approximately 26 legal professions (other) students who graduated with this degree at Pitt in the most recent data year.
Temple University is a good decision for students pursuing a degree in legal professions (other). Located in the large city of Philadelphia, Temple is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 11th out of 109 schools for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were roughly 27 legal professions (other) students who graduated with this degree at Temple in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduation, other legal professions degree recipients typically make around $41,249 at the beginning of their careers.
Every student who is interested in legal professions (other) has to check out Central Penn College. Central Penn is a fairly small private for-profit college located in the large suburb of Summerdale. This college ranks 53rd out of 109 colleges for overall quality in the state of Pennsylvania.
There were about 17 legal professions (other) students who graduated with this degree at Central Penn in the most recent data year. Soon after graduation, other legal professions degree recipients generally make around $32,472 in the first five years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).
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