2025 Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

If you pursue a doctor's degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,479 doctor's degrees in law during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Average Earnings

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their doctor's degree from the school. After all, your doctor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to law students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of law students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for law to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized law related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for law students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Law Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in Pennsylvania ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Law in Pennsylvania

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in law.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for a Doctorate in Law

1

Temple University
Philadelphia, PA

210 Annual Graduates

Any student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in law needs to take a look at Temple University. Temple is a very large public university located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in law from Temple University

2

Drexel University
Philadelphia, PA

152 Annual Graduates

Drexel University is a wonderful option for students pursuing a doctor's degree in law. Drexel is a very large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Philadelphia.More information about a doctorate in law from Drexel University

Best Law Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Law Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	174	4,025
Maryland	119	418
New Jersey	115	610
District of Columbia	81	1,954

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Law Related Rankings by Major

Law is one of 4 different types of Legal Professions programs to choose from.

Law Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Law	1,479

Majors Similar to Law

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Legal Research	11

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.