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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Nevada

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$6,449 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,062 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, legal professions students earned 187 degrees and certificates from a Nevada school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

The Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Nevada ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Nevada to see which master's degree 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.

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.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Colleges.

Our analysis found University of Nevada - Reno to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Nevada. Located in the city of Reno, UNR is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNR are $6,290 per year.

UNR also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Nevada rankings.

Full Legal Professions at University of Nevada - Reno Report

Out of the 2 schools in Nevada that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the # 2 spot on the list. UNLV is a fairly large public school located in the city of Las Vegas.

UNLV graduate students pay an average of $6,607 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UNLV is ranked #3 for overall quality for legal professions in Nevada.

Full Legal Professions at University of Nevada - Las Vegas Report

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

State Degrees Awarded
California 5,637
Washington 622
Oregon 434
Hawaii 116
Alaska 3

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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More about our data sources and methodologies.

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