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2023 Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$35,269 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.

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The Best Value Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in the Plains States Region 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

#1

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, ND

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Dakota the best value school in the Plains States Region for legal research students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the city of Grand Forks, UND is a public school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UND are $18,968 a year.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at University of Missouri - Columbia helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in the Plains States Region . Located in the midsize city of Columbia, Mizzou is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Mizzou are $28,550 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, Mizzou also did well on our Best Legal Research Graduate Certificate Schools in the Plains States Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Washington University in St Louis helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in the Plains States Region . WUSTL is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Saint Louis.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at WUSTL are $58,288 per year.

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Explore the best legal research colleges for a specific state in the Plains States region.

State Degrees Awarded
Missouri 411
Minnesota 78
Iowa 6
Kansas 10
Nebraska 11
North Dakota 4

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 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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