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

1 Ranked Colleges
77 Degrees Awarded
$22,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Maine 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 Maine For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2019-2020, 61,993 people earned their degree in legal professions, making the major the 17th most popular in the United States. 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 Maine, there were 143 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,300 and $39,309 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 77 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $80,229 and $177,250 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions programs that also have a lower cost than 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 Maine 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 Maine For Those Making $0-$30k.

#1

University of Southern Maine

Portland, Maine
#1 in overall quality
$22,308 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Maine For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Southern Maine landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public school situated in Portland, Maine. It awarded 77 doctorate’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at University of Southern Maine, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Maine” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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