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2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Master's Degree Schools in West Virginia

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$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 Most Popular 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 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 master's degree.

Our 2023 rankings named American Public University System the most popular school in West Virginia for legal professions students working on their master’s degree. Located in the town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a very large student population.

About 70% of the students majoring in legal professions at the school are women while 30% are male.

Read full report on Legal Professions at American Public University System

#2

West Virginia University

Morgantown, WV

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend West Virginia University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Popular Legal Professions Master’s Degree Schools in West Virginia list. Located in the city of Morgantown, WVU is a public school with a very large student population.

Women make up 74% of the legal professions majors at the school.

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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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