Best Legal Research Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Far Western US Region that made our Best Legal Research Doctor's Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Legal Research School for Your Doctor's Degree

The legal research doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality legal research 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.

Average Early-Career Salaries

Average early-career salary of those graduating with their doctor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. That is, everyone wants their doctor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

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 legal research students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal research 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 legal research 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 legal research related body.

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

Insufficient Data for the Far Western US Region

Sad to say, we did not have adequate info to make a ranking of the quality schools for legal research in the Far Western US Region . This is typically due to there not being enough schools in the Far Western US Region that both offer legal research and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

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

Best Legal Research Colleges by State

Explore the best legal research schools for a specific state in the Far Western US Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
California	180	18

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Rankings in Majors Related to Legal Research

One of 4 majors within the Legal Professions area of study, Legal Research has other similar majors worth exploring.

Legal Research Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
International Law & Legal Studies	5
General Advanced Legal Research/Studies	2
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence	2

Majors Similar to Legal Research

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Law	5,128
Legal Professions (Other)	3

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.