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2022 Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making $75-$110k

1 Ranked Colleges
70 Degrees Awarded
$23,200 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making $75-$110k

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this 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 Montana, there were 97 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $49,900 and $76,666 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 70 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,500 and $58,091 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal professions programs and 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.

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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 Montana For Those Making $75-$110k” 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 Montana For Those Making $75-$110k.

#1

The University of Montana

Missoula, Montana
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Montana For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Montana landed the #1 spot on the list. Missoula, Montana is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s legal professions degrees to 70 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at UM, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Montana” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UM are $23,242.

Full The University of Montana 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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