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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$7,050 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,062 Avg Salary

With 164 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions is the #12 most popular major in West Virginia.

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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 West Virginia to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in West Virginia 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 American Public University System to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a master’s degree in West Virginia. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, American Military University is ranked #2 for overall quality for legal professions in West Virginia.

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#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

The excellent master’s degree programs at West Virginia University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in West Virginia. Located in the small city of Morgantown, WVU is a public college with a very large student population.

WVU graduate students pay an average of $10,332 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

WVU also made our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list, coming in at #3.

Full Legal Professions at West Virginia University Report

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

State Degrees Awarded
Mississippi 240
Florida 2,585
Virginia 1,529
Tennessee 601
North Carolina 1,145
Georgia 982
South Carolina 388
Louisiana 882
Kentucky 355
Arkansas 256
Alabama 363

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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