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2023 Best Value Other Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$18,351 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,455 Avg Salary

Legal Professions (Other) is the #81 most popular major in California with 239 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Other Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in California ranking. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in California to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for other legal professions students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

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.

Check out the other legal professions master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Our analysis found University of California - Los Angeles to be the best value school for legal professions (other) students who want to pursue a master’s degree in California. UCLA is a very large public school located in the large city of Los Angeles.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UCLA are $13,036 a year.

UCLA also made our Best Other Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in California list, coming in at #4.

Full Legal Professions (Other) at University of California - Los Angeles Report

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of California - Davis. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Other Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in California list. UC Davis is a fairly large public school located in the small suburb of Davis.

UC Davis graduate students pay an average of $13,608 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Legal Professions (Other) at University of California - Davis

#3

University of San Diego

San Diego, CA

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of San Diego. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Other Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in California list. USD is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of San Diego.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at USD are $28,410 per year.

USD excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 20% of all schools on our Best Other Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in California list.

Full Legal Professions (Other) at University of San Diego Report

#4

Southwestern Law School

Los Angeles, CA

Out of the 4 schools in California that were part of this year’s ranking, Southwestern Law School landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the city of Los Angeles, Southwestern Law School is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly small student population.

Southwestern Law School graduate students pay an average of $18,430 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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State Degrees Awarded
Washington 0
Nevada 13

Legal Professions (Other) is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
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).
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