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2023 Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$45,894 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,162 Avg Salary

With 241 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal research is the #57 most popular major in Massachusetts.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Massachusetts to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Massachusetts to see which master's degree 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. 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.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Colleges.

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Our analysis found Harvard University to be the best value school for legal research students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Massachusetts. Harvard is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the midsize city of Cambridge.

Harvard graduate students pay an average of $52,170 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Harvard also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts rankings.

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Out of the 3 schools in Massachusetts that were part of this year’s ranking, Northeastern University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Boston, Northeastern is a private not-for-profit school with a very large student population.

Northeastern graduate students pay an average of $26,095 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Northeastern also claimed a spot on our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools in this category.

Read full report on Legal Research at Northeastern University

#3

Boston University

Boston, MA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Boston University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts list. Boston U is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Boston.

Boston U graduate students pay an average of $59,418 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, Boston U also is in the top 15% of our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Massachusetts ranking.

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

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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