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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

2 Colleges
$19,769 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$49,849 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in New Jersey. With 733 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 8th out of all the majors we track in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in New Jersey to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for legal professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

Our 2023 rankings named Montclair State University the best value school in New Jersey for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the suburb of Montclair, Montclair State is a public college with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Montclair State are $13,519 per year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Montclair State University

#2

Seton Hall University

South Orange, NJ

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Seton Hall University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey list. Seton Hall is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of South Orange.

Seton Hall graduate students pay an average of $26,018 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 4,768
Pennsylvania 2,017
Maryland 497
District of Columbia 2,497
Delaware 0

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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