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2023 Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$45,992 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$46,213 Avg Salary

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the #181 most popular major in the country with 444 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 Non-Professional Legal Studies Master's Degree Schools in the New England Region ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 2 schools in the New England Region to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for non-professional general legal studies 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 Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master's Degree Colleges.

#1

Harvard University

Cambridge, MA

Our 2023 rankings named Harvard University the best value school in the New England Region for non-professional general legal studies students working on their master’s degree. Harvard is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the medium-sized city of Cambridge.

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

Harvard not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Non-Professional Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the New England Region list.

Read full report on Non-Professional General Legal Studies at Harvard University

#2

Suffolk University

Boston, MA

Out of the 2 schools in the New England Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Suffolk University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Suffolk is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Boston.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Suffolk are $39,813 a year.

Full Non-Professional General Legal Studies at Suffolk University Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 23

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).
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