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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$17,877 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,062 Avg Salary

Legal Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in Minnesota. With 821 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 7th out of all the majors we track in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in Minnesota ranking. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Minnesota 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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

For nationwide and regional rankings, we use out-of-state tuition and fees in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

Check out the legal professions master's degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

#1

Hamline University

Saint Paul, MN

Our 2023 rankings named Hamline University the best value school in Minnesota for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Located in the large city of Saint Paul, Hamline is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Hamline are $10,402 per year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Minnesota. Located in the city of Minneapolis, UMN Twin Cities is a public school with a very large student population.

UMN Twin Cities graduate students pay an average of $19,494 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UMN Twin Cities did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota list.

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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of St Thomas Minnesota. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota list. Located in the large city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit school with a moderately-sized student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UST MN are $23,736 a year.

UST MN did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in Minnesota list.

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

State Degrees Awarded
Kansas 210
Missouri 1,062
Iowa 272
North Dakota 60
Nebraska 233
South Dakota 62

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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More about our data sources and methodologies.

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