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2022 Best Value Colleges for Legal Professions (Income $0-$30k) in Rhode Island

2 Ranked Colleges
257 Degrees Awarded
$16,300 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

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 Rhode Island, there were 257 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,675 and $91,155 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal professions programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the legal professions program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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 in Rhode Island 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 in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k.

#1

Community College of Rhode Island

Warwick, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Community College of Rhode Island. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k. This fairly large school is located in Warwick, Rhode Island, and it awarded 28 ’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at CCRI, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for CCRI is $5,485 for Rhode Island Legal Professions students whose families make $0-$30k.

Read more about Legal Professions at Community College of Rhode Island

#2

Roger Williams University

Bristol, Rhode Island

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roger Williams University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island For Those Making $0-$30k. Located in Bristol, Rhode Island, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 82 degrees to qualified ’s legal professions students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at RWU, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Schools in Rhode Island” ranking. It costs about $27,136 for Rhode Island Legal Professions students whose families make $0-$30k per year to attend Roger Williams University.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 4.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Roger Williams University 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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