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2023 Best Value Legal Research Schools in Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$16,355 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,747 Avg Salary

Legal Research is the #44 most popular major in Virginia with 168 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

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.

The Best Value Legal Research Schools in Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Virginia to see which ones offered the best value 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.

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

$19,785 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Virginia - Main Campus the best value school in Virginia for legal research students. Located in the small suburb of Charlottesville, University of Virginia is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at University of Virginia are $19,785 a year.

University of Virginia also took the #1 spot in our Best Legal Research Schools in Virginia rankings.

Full Legal Research at University of Virginia - Main Campus Report

#2

George Mason University

Fairfax, VA
$13,119 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at George Mason University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best legal research schools in Virginia. Located in the large suburb of Fairfax, GMU is a public school with a fairly large student population.

GMU undergraduate students pay an average of $13,119 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, GMU is in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Legal Research Schools in Virginia list.

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#3

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA
$16,160 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Research Schools in Virginia list. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Liberty University are $16,160 a year.

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#4

University of Richmond

University of Richmond, VA
$58,570 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 4 schools in Virginia that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Richmond landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the midsize city of University of Richmond, URichmond is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at URichmond are $58,570 per year.

Full Legal Research at University of Richmond Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Florida 478
Georgia 103
North Carolina 115
Tennessee 4
Kentucky 0
Louisiana 44
Alabama 58
Mississippi 4

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 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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