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2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey

2 Colleges
$49,849 Avg Salary
$24,990 Avg Student Debt

Legal Professions is one of the most popular subjects to study in New Jersey. With 733 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, it ranked 8th out of all the majors we track in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Most Popular Legal Professions Graduate Certificate Schools in New Jersey ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in New Jersey to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Legal Professions program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for legal professions majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Montclair State University

Montclair, NJ

Our 2023 rankings named Montclair State University the most popular school in New Jersey for legal professions students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large suburb of Montclair, Montclair State is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Of the 25 students majoring in legal professions at Montclair State, 20% are male and 80% are female.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Montclair State University

#2

Seton Hall University

South Orange, NJ

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Seton Hall University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular legal professions schools in New Jersey. Seton Hall is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of South Orange.

Read full report on Legal Professions at Seton Hall University

Explore all the Most Popular 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
Maryland 497
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 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The wub.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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