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

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” 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 Mississippi, there were 475 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,033 and $41,472 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,447 and $43,355 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” 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. 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 Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

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

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$25,099 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in University, Mississippi, this large public school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal professions students in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ole Miss are $25,099, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full University of Mississippi Legal Professions Report

#2

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi

$12,322 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Mississippi College. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid. MC is a private not-for-profit institution located in Clinton, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 1 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at MC, the school also landed the #0 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at MC are $12,322, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Mississippi College Legal Professions Report

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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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