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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$10,922 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in Mississippi. With 240 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 6th out of all the majors we track in the state.

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 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Mississippi to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 2 schools in Mississippi to see which ones offered the best value doctor's degree programs for 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.

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

#1

University of Mississippi

University, MS

Our analysis found University of Mississippi to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a doctor’s degree in Mississippi. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Ole Miss are $9,048 per year.

Ole Miss also made our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Mississippi list, coming in at #1.

Full Legal Professions at University of Mississippi Report

#2

Mississippi College

Clinton, MS

Out of the 2 schools in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Mississippi College landed the # 2 spot on the list. MC is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Clinton.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at MC are $12,796 a year.

Full Legal Professions at Mississippi College Report

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 2,585
North Carolina 1,145
Virginia 1,529
Tennessee 601
Georgia 982
West Virginia 164
Louisiana 882
South Carolina 388
Kentucky 355
Arkansas 256
Alabama 363

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 10,452
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

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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