2025 Best Legal Professions Schools in Wisconsin

Legal Professions isn't the most popular major in the world, but it's not the least popular either. To be more precise it ranks #16 in popularity out of 38 majors in the country. So, it might take a little more work to find colleges and universities that offer the degree program.

College Factual reviewed 2 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of legal professions. Combined, these schools handed out 771 degrees in legal professions to qualified students.

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Legal Professions Rankings by Degree Level

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Legal Professions Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision. If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.

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Best Schools for Legal Professions in Wisconsin

The schools below may not offer all types of legal professions degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Wisconsin Schools in Legal Professions

1

University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

380 Legal Professions Degrees Awarded

$65,051 Median Starting Salary

University of Wisconsin - Madison is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in legal professions. Located in the large city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a very large student population.

Degree recipients from the legal professions degree program at University of Wisconsin - Madison get $4,865 more than the average college grad with the same degree shortly after graduation.

More information about a degree in legal professions from University of Wisconsin - Madison

2

Milwaukee Area Technical College
Milwaukee, WI

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

Any student pursuing a degree in legal professions needs to check out Milwaukee Area Technical College. MATC is a fairly large public college located in the large city of Milwaukee.More information about a degree in legal professions from Milwaukee Area Technical College

Best Legal Professions Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

Explore all the Best Legal Professions Schools in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Indiana	38	1,130
Michigan	38	1,647
Ohio	38	1,588
Illinois	38	2,475

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Legal Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Law	409
Legal Support Services	179
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	145
Legal Research	38

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Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• 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 the rest 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).
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