2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate School for You
In 2020-2021, 45,189 legal professions students received a degree or certificate, making the major the #7 most popular in the country.
It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 11 schools in the Great Lakes Region to see which graduate certificate programs offered the best value experiences for legal professions students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.
Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.
In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.
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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a graduate certificate.
Top 10 Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Purdue University Global the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the small city of Indianapolis, Purdue University Global is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Purdue University Global graduate students pay an average of $10,582 in tuition and fees each year.
The excellent graduate certificate programs at Loyola University Chicago helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Great Lakes Region . Loyola Chicago is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 per year.
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The excellent graduate certificate programs at Davenport University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in the Great Lakes Region . Located in the suburb of Grand Rapids, Davenport University is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.
Davenport University graduate students pay an average of $17,208 in tuition and fees each year.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Capital University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the large suburb of Columbus, Capital is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Capital are $13,190 a year.
A rank of #5 on this year’s list means University of Akron Main Campus is a great value for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. University of Akron Main Campus is a large public school located in the city of Akron.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at University of Akron Main Campus are $11,936 per year.
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University of Wisconsin - Madison ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. UW - Madison is a very large public school located in the large city of Madison.
UW - Madison graduate students pay an average of $25,501 in tuition and fees each year.
UW - Madison also made our Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, coming in at #5.
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Northwestern University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. Northwestern is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Evanston.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Northwestern are $56,567 a year.
In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, Northwestern is ranked #1 for overall quality for legal professions in the Great Lakes Region .
Cleveland State University ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the large city of Cleveland, Cleveland State University is a public school with a large student population.
Cleveland State University graduate students pay an average of $18,051 in tuition and fees each year.
Indiana University - Purdue University - Indianapolis did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #9 on the list. IUPUI is a very large public school located in the city of Indianapolis.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at IUPUI are $26,529 per year.
Indiana University - Bloomington did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal professions students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #10 on the list. Located in the small city of Bloomington, IU Bloomington is a public college with a fairly large student population.
IU Bloomington graduate students pay an average of $33,352 in tuition and fees each year.
IU Bloomington also claimed a spot on our Best Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.
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Best Legal Professions Colleges by State
Explore the best legal professions colleges for a specific state in the Great Lakes region.
| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| Illinois | 2,368 |
| Indiana | 884 |
| Ohio | 1,272 |
| Wisconsin | 505 |
| Michigan | 1,373 |
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Majors Related to Legal Professions
Legal Professions Majors to Study
| 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 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Legal Professions
| 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 11 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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