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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Minnesota

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

3 Colleges
$36,601 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$40,016 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Minnesota to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 3 schools in Minnesota to see which 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.

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

#1

Hamline University

Saint Paul, MN
$46,221 Average Tuition & Fees

Our 2023 rankings named Hamline University the best value school in Minnesota for legal professions students. Located in the city of Saint Paul, Hamline is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Hamline are $46,221 a year.

Full Legal Professions at Hamline University Report

$15,254 Average Tuition & Fees

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

UMN Twin Cities undergraduate students pay an average of $15,254 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UMN Twin Cities also took the #5 spot in our Best Legal Professions Schools in Minnesota rankings.

Full Legal Professions at University of Minnesota - Twin Cities Report

$48,329 Average Tuition & Fees

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 Schools in Minnesota list. Located in the large city of Saint Paul, UST MN is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UST MN are $48,329 per year.

UST MN not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Legal Professions Schools in Minnesota list.

Full Legal Professions at University of St Thomas Minnesota Report

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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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