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2023 Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$33,731 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,103 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 1,054 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal research students who went to a California college or university. This makes it the #26 most popular major in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in California ranking. This report analyzed 3 schools in California to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for legal research students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

Check out the legal research graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

#1

Loyola Marymount University

Los Angeles, CA

Our analysis found Loyola Marymount University to be the best value school for legal research students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. Located in the city of Los Angeles, Loyola Marymount is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Marymount are $19,922 per year.

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Out of the 3 schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Golden Gate University - San Francisco landed the # 2 spot on the list. Golden Gate University - San Francisco is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of San Francisco.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Golden Gate University - San Francisco are $19,875 per year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Southern California helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in California. Located in the city of Los Angeles, USC is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

USC graduate students pay an average of $61,396 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 108
Oregon 26
Nevada 8
Hawaii 7

Legal Research is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
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.

  • 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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