Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that made our Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Middle Atlantic Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great General Advanced Legal Research/Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree

The advanced legal research/studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality advanced legal research/studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To take this into account we consider a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

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 general advanced legal research/studies students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of general advanced legal research/studies 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized general advanced legal research/studies related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for general advanced legal research/studies students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Middle Atlantic Region

Due to absent data, we were not able to provide you with the general advanced legal research/studies quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Middle Atlantic Region that both offer general advanced legal research/studies and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other General Advanced Legal Research/Studies rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for General Advanced Legal Research/Studies ranking.

Best General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Colleges by State

Explore the best general advanced legal research/studies schools for a specific state in the Middle Atlantic Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	366	7
Pennsylvania	311	1
District of Columbia	143	2

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General Advanced Legal Research/Studies Related Rankings by Major

General Advanced Legal Research/Studies is one of 24 different types of Legal Research programs to choose from.

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law	9
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	6
International Law & Legal Studies	5
Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources Law	2
Programs for Foreign Lawyers	1
Criminal Law and Procedure	1

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.