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2023 Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$40,180 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$53,103 Avg Salary

Out of all the majors we analyze each year, legal research was ranked #40 in the country. In fact 6,659 degrees and certificates were handed out 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 Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in the New England Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for legal research 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Colleges.

#1

Champlain College

Burlington, VT

Our 2023 rankings named Champlain College the best value school in the New England Region for legal research students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Burlington, Champlain is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Champlain graduate students pay an average of $14,310 in tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Champlain is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list.

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#2

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Out of the 5 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Harvard University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge, Harvard is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Harvard are $52,170 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Harvard is ranked #1 for overall quality for legal research in the New England Region .

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#3

Vermont Law School

South Royalton, VT

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Vermont Law School helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in the New England Region . Located in the rural area of South Royalton, VLS is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

VLS graduate students pay an average of $43,345 in tuition and fees each year.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Southern Maine. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the New England Region list. University of Southern Maine is a medium-sized public school located in the small city of Portland.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Southern Maine are $22,968 a year.

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Out of the 5 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Connecticut landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Storrs, UCONN is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UCONN are $42,237 a year.

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Explore the best legal research colleges for a specific state in the New England region.

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 241
Connecticut 76
New Hampshire 17
Maine 13
Vermont 83

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

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 5 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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