2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income Over $110k) in Wisconsin

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k” 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 Wisconsin, there were 664 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 325 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k” ranking, we looked at 2 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.

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The legal professions school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k”.

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Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k.

Top 2 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income Over $110k) in Wisconsin

#1

University of Wisconsin - Madison

Madison, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$25,523 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k list. UW - Madison is a large school located in Madison, Wisconsin that handed out 150 doctorate’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

UW - Madison did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UW - Madison are $25,523.

Read more about Legal Professions at University of Wisconsin - Madison

#2

Marquette University

Milwaukee, Wisconsin

#1 in overall quality

$21,690 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Marquette University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Vallue Legal Professions Schools for a Doctorate in Wisconsin For Those Making Over $110k list. Milwaukee, Wisconsin is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out doctorate’s legal professions degrees to 175 students in 2019-2020.

Marquette also took the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Wisconsin” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Marquette University are $21,690, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income Over $110k) in the Great Lakes Region
• Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions (Income Over $110k)

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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