If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in non-professional general legal studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #102 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in the Great Lakes Region to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of non-professional general legal studies. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 327 bachelor's degrees in non-professional general legal studies during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on non-professional general legal studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other non-professional general legal studies students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How much debt non-professional general legal studies students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized non-professional general legal studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for non-professional general legal studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
More Ways to Rank Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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It's difficult to beat University of Wisconsin - Madison if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in non-professional general legal studies. Located in the city of Madison, UW - Madison is a public university with a fairly large student population.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the non-professional general legal studies program state that they receive average early career wages of $41,144.
Michigan State University is a great option for students pursuing a bachelor's degree in non-professional general legal studies. Located in the small city of East Lansing, Michigan State is a public university with a very large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the non-professional general legal studies program earn around $33,752 for their early career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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).
