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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k

6 Ranked Colleges
688 Degrees Awarded
$38,300 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master's in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 the New England region, there were 4,440 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,390 and $62,802 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 688 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,606 and $42,101 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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 Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for new england region master’s degree legal professions students whose families make $48-$75k.

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, Massachusetts
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Harvard University. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k. Cambridge, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s legal professions degrees to 183 students in 2019-2020.

Harvard also made our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #1. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Harvard are $50,654.

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#2

Boston University

Boston, Massachusetts
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Boston University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Boston U is located in Boston, Massachusetts and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 240 masters’s legal professions degrees to qualified students.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Boston U, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Boston U are $57,666.

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#3

Boston College

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
#4 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Boston College landed the #3 spot on the list. Boston College is a fairly large school located in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts that handed out 21 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

Boston College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Boston College are $31,930, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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#4

Northeastern University

Boston, Massachusetts
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the #4 spot on the list. Boston, Massachusetts is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s legal professions degrees to 17 students in 2019-2020.

Northeastern also made our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list, coming in at #5. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Northeastern University are $25,558.

Full Northeastern Legal Professions Report

#6 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Southern Maine. It ranked #5 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. Portland, Maine is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s legal professions degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

University of Southern Maine did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Southern Maine are $22,308, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Legal Professions at University of Southern Maine

#6

University of Connecticut

Storrs, Connecticut
#3 in overall quality

University of Connecticut ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in the New England Region For Those Making $48-$75k list. UCONN is a public institution located in Storrs, Connecticut. The school has a large population, and it awarded 50 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

UCONN not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #3 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UCONN are $41,576, 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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