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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k

1 Ranked Colleges
120 Degrees Awarded
$21,900 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Legal Professions is the 17th most popular major in the country with 61,993 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $43,199 and had an average of $58,026 in loans still to pay off.

Across Nevada, there were 210 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $65,900 and $94,197 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 120 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $84,833 and $191,671 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal professions 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 professions program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Nevada - Las Vegas. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Nevada For Those Making $0-$30k. University of Nevada - Las Vegas is a large public school situated in Las Vegas, Nevada. It awarded 120 doctorate’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

UNLV not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Nevada” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Nevada - Las Vegas are $21,962, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full UNLV Legal Professions Report

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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