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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Georgia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$25,607 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$41,155 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, legal professions students earned 982 degrees and certificates from a Georgia school, making the subject the 6th 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. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Georgia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 3 schools in Georgia to see which ones offered the best value programs for legal professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a .

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, GA
$12,068 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named University of Georgia the best value school in Georgia for legal professions students. Located in the medium-sized city of Athens, UGA is a public college with a very large student population.

UGA undergraduate students pay an average of $12,068 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, UGA is ranked #4 for overall quality for legal professions in Georgia.

Full Legal Professions at University of Georgia Report

$9,286 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Georgia list. Georgia State is a very large public school located in the city of Atlanta.

Georgia State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,286 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Georgia State University

#3

Emory University

Atlanta, GA
$55,468 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Emory University. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Georgia list. Emory is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Atlanta.

Emory undergraduate students pay an average of $55,468 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Emory also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Professions Schools in Georgia rankings.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Emory University

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
West Virginia 164
Louisiana 882
South Carolina 388
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 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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