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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Professions in South Carolina

1 Ranked Colleges
6 Degrees Awarded
$23,200 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor's in South Carolina

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 Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina” 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 South Carolina, there were 568 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,980 and $57,741 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 6 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal professions programs, but they also 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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

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The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina.

#1

South University, Columbia

Columbia, South Carolina
#1 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend South University, Columbia. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Legal Professions Schools for a Bachelor’s in South Carolina. South University, Columbia is a small school located in Columbia, South Carolina that handed out 5 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at South University, Columbia, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in South Carolina” ranking. The yearly cost to attend South University, Columbia is $23,187 for South Carolina Bachelor’s Degree Legal Professions students.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its students.

Full South University, Columbia 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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