2023 Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Legal Professions Master's Degree 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 Master's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 19 schools in the Great Lakes Region 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.
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 Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region
The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a master's degree.
Top 10 Best Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools
Our 2023 rankings named Loyola University Chicago the best value school in the Great Lakes Region for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Loyola Chicago is a large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Loyola Chicago are $19,894 a year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Purdue University Global. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the small city of Indianapolis, Purdue University Global is a public college with a fairly large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Purdue University Global are $10,582 per year.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Located in the medium-sized city of Lansing, WMU-Cooley Law School is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
WMU-Cooley Law School graduate students pay an average of $14,440 in tuition and fees each year.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Wisconsin - Madison. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree 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.
As a testament to the quality of education it offers, UW - Madison also is in the top 5% of our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Akron Main Campus. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. University of Akron Main Campus is a large public school located in the medium-sized city of Akron.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Akron Main Campus are $11,936 a year.
University of Chicago landed the #6 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree legal professions programs. Located in the large city of Chicago, UChicago is a private not-for-profit college with a large student population.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UChicago are $63,936 per year.
UChicago also made our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list, coming in at #3.
DePaul University landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value master’s degree legal professions programs. DePaul is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Chicago.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at DePaul are $18,341 per year.
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor came in at #8 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. U-M is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Ann Arbor.
Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U-M are $50,464 per year.
On top of its placing in our value ranking, U-M also did well on our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.
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Illinois Institute of Technology ranked #9 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region list. Illinois Tech is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Chicago.
Illinois Tech graduate students pay an average of $30,822 in tuition and fees each year.
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Cleveland State University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking. Located in the city of Cleveland, Cleveland State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.
The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Cleveland State University are $18,051 a year.
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Best Legal Professions Colleges by State
Explore the best legal professions schools 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 19 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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