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2023 Best Law Schools in Minnesota

3 Colleges
$58,413 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Law School for You

Law is the #12 most popular major in Minnesota with 693 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Law Schools in Minnesota to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Minnesota to see which ones offered the best programs for students.

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2023 Best Law Schools in Minnesota

The colleges and universities below are the best for law majors pursuing a .

Top Minnesota Schools in Law

Our analysis found Mitchell Hamline School of Law to be the best school for law students who want to pursue a degree in Minnesota. Located in the city of Saint Paul, Mitchell Hamline is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Full Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law Report

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Law Schools in Minnesota list. UST MN is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the city of Saint Paul.

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The excellent programs at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best law schools in Minnesota. UMN Twin Cities is a fairly large public school located in the city of Minneapolis.

Read full report on Law at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

Best Law Colleges in the Plains States Region

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State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 619
Iowa 237
Kansas 198
Nebraska 216
North Dakota 56
South Dakota 62

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Law is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 3 schools only.

  • Read more about our ranking methodology.
  • 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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