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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

3 Colleges
$16,405 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,062 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, legal professions students earned 497 degrees and certificates from a Maryland school, making the subject the 10th in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. As online education oppotunities continue to grow, you're not restricted to just schools in your local area anymore. Even some of the 'big name' schools are offering online courses. Also, there are a number of trade schools with offerings that you might find attractive.

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 Maryland to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 3 schools in Maryland to see which ones offered the best value master's degree 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 master's degree.

#1

Stevenson University

Stevenson, MD

Our 2023 rankings named Stevenson University the best value school in Maryland for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Located in the rural area of Stevenson, Stevenson is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Stevenson are $8,340 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Maryland - Baltimore helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Maryland. UMB is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Baltimore.

UMB graduate students pay an average of $17,046 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Baltimore helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Maryland. Located in the city of Baltimore, UB is a public school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UB are $15,764 a year.

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 4,768
Pennsylvania 2,017
New Jersey 733
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 3 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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