2023 Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s
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Ranked Colleges
465
Degrees Awarded
$34,796
Avg Salary
Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 61,055 people earned their degree in legal professions, making the major the 16th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,649 and had an average of $28,699 in loans still to pay off.
Across California, there were 7,816 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $61,809 and $19,221 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 465 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $39,566 and $21,995 respectively.
For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal professions programs as well as strong veteran support.
To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the legal professions program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.
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Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s
The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s”.
Top 2 Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in California
Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, University of California - Santa Cruz landed the #1 spot on the list. This fairly large school is located in Santa Cruz, California, and it awarded 148 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.
As a testament to the quality of education offered at UC Santa Cruz, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” ranking.According to our most recent data, UC Santa Cruz supports 19,161 students, and 273 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 114 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average Post-9/11 GI Bill® award for tuition and fees at the school was $8,631. During this same period, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.
With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses. The school came in at #2 for the Most Veteran Friendly in California for Legal Professions for a Bachelor’s. Stockton, California is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal professions degrees to 21 students in 2020-2021.
Humphreys University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in California” list.According to our most recent data, Humphreys University - Stockton and Modesto Campuses supports 401 students, and 13 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 7 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $8,202. To help with additional expenses, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.
With a freshman retention rate of 100%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The low undergrad student loan default rate of [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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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).
- Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
- 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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
- 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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