Price tags on the top law schools in America have reached epic proportions.
For those of us who can't afford to pay $50,000 a year or more, the National Jurist has compiled its sixth annual list of the Best Value Law Schools.
This year's Best Value rankings take into account the following: tuition (25 percent of the score), cost of living expenses (10 percent), average indebtedness upon graduation (15 percent), the percentage of graduates who got a job (35 percent), and bar passage rates (15 percent).
As a disclaimer, it's important to note that several schools have recently been called out on incorrectly reporting their debt data, Above the Law has pointed out.
It's still interesting to see the rankings since National Jurist took other factors into account like tuition and graduates' chances of getting a job.
So is it worth paying over $50,000 per year to attend Cornell, Columbia or Harvard, or will these ten "value" schools do?
10. University of Wisconsin
Tuition: $19,683
Average debt for 2011 grads: $66,987
Employment rate: 77 percent
Two-year bar pass average: 99.61 percent
Source: National Jurist
9. University of North Carolina
Tuition: $19,012
Average debt for 2011 Grads: $76,642
Employment rate: 80 percent
Two-year bar pass average: 90.53 percent
Source: National Jurist
8. University of New Mexico
Tuition: $14,532
Average debt for 2011 Grads: $63,793
Employment rate: 78 percent
Two-year bar pass average: 91.55 percent
Source: National Jurist
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