Best American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the United States

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the United States that made our Best American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Doctor's Degree Schools list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence School for Your Doctor's Degree

The american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. 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 host of different 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 american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence 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 american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence related body.

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

Insufficient Data for the United States

Due to missing data, we couldn't show you the american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the United States that both offer american/u.s. law/legal studies/jurisprudence and provided enough information for us to do a sufficient analysis.

American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence by Region

View the Best American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Doctor's Degree Schools for a specific region near you.

Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Other U.S. Territories
Great Lakes

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American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence Related Rankings by Major

American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence is one of 24 different types of Legal Research programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence

Related Major	Annual Graduates
General Advanced Legal Research/Studies	272
International Law & Legal Studies	12
Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law	9
Other Legal Research & Advanced Professional Studies	6
Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources Law	2
Programs for Foreign Lawyers	1
Health Law	1
Tax Law/Taxation	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.