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2023 Best Value Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$19,536 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,084 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Law Doctor's Degree School for You

Law is one of the most popular subjects to study in Michigan. With 1,285 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 3rd out of all the majors we track in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Value Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Michigan to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Michigan to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for law students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in Michigan

Check out the law doctor's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Michigan Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Law

Our 2023 rankings named Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School the best value school in Michigan for law students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Lansing, WMU-Cooley Law School is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at WMU-Cooley Law School are $14,440 a year.

Read full report on Law at Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Michigan - Ann Arbor is a great value for law students working on their doctor’s degree. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at U-M are $25,230 per year.

U-M not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in Michigan list.

Read full report on Law at University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Detroit Mercy. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in Michigan list. Located in the city of Detroit, Detroit Mercy is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Detroit Mercy are $21,276 per year.

Full Law at University of Detroit Mercy Report

#4

Wayne State University

Detroit, MI

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Wayne State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Law Doctor’s Degree Schools in Michigan list. Located in the city of Detroit, Wayne State is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Wayne State are $18,937 per year.

Read full report on Law at Wayne State University

Best Value Law Colleges in the Great Lakes Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Illinois 1,700
Ohio 1,015
Indiana 599
Wisconsin 463

One of 4 majors within the area of study, law has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 4 schools only.

  • 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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