Only 23 percent of recent law grads strongly agree their education was worth the cost, study says
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Recent law graduates are less likely than holders of other graduate degrees to believe their education was worth the cost and to feel prepared for life, according to a Gallup study.
Only 23 percent of the law grads in the study strongly agreed that their advanced education was worth the cost, CNBC reports. And only 20 percent strongly agreed that their graduate-level education got them prepared for life outside of school. The study results are here.
The results are from a study of 4,000 adults who received a postgraduate degree between 2000 and 2015. Another recent study of degree holders from a broader time period—from 1941 to 2017—found that 48 percent of JD holders strongly agreed their degree was worth the cost.
In the study of graduate degree holders from the more recent time period, the percentages of those strongly agreeing their education was worth the cost was:
- 64 percent of those with doctoral degrees.
- 58 percent of those with medical degrees.
- 42 percent of those with Master of Business Administration degrees.
- 49 percent of those with Master of Science degrees.
- 45 percent of those with Master of Arts degrees.
The percentages of those strongly agreeing that their graduate education prepared them well for life outside school was:
- 30 percent of those with doctoral degrees.
- 50 percent of those with medical degrees.
- 23 percent of those with Master of Business Administration degrees.
- 30 percent of those with Master of Science degrees.
- 24 percent of those with Master of Arts degrees.
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