2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Colorado (With Aid)

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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 Colorado, there were 810 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $43,556 and $53,358 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 85 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $52,789 and $41,587 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in legal professions. 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for colorado master’s degree legal professions students with aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in Colorado (With Aid)

#1

University of Colorado Boulder

Boulder, Colorado

$32,980 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Colorado Boulder landed the #1 spot on the list. CU - Boulder is a large school located in Boulder, Colorado that handed out 23 masters’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

CU - Boulder also took the #0 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at University of Colorado Boulder are $32,980.

Full CU - Boulder Legal Professions Report

#2

University of Denver

Denver, Colorado

#1 in overall quality

$52,899 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Colorado For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Denver landed the #2 spot on the list. DU is a private not-for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 61 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

DU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Colorado” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at DU are $52,899, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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