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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$38,231 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$61,455 Avg Salary

With 125 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions (other) is the #82 most popular major in Illinois.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Other Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Illinois to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Illinois to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for other legal professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for other legal professions majors pursuing a master's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named Loyola University Chicago the best value school in Illinois for legal professions (other) students working on their master’s degree. Loyola Chicago is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.

Loyola Chicago graduate students pay an average of $19,894 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Legal Professions (Other) at Loyola University Chicago

#2

Northwestern University

Evanston, IL

The excellent master’s degree programs at Northwestern University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions (other) schools in Illinois. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the small city of Evanston.

Northwestern graduate students pay an average of $56,567 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Northwestern did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Other Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Illinois list.

Full Legal Professions (Other) at Northwestern University Report

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions (Other) Colleges in the Great Lakes Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Michigan 29
Ohio 15
Indiana 39

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 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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