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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies (Income $30-$48k) in Tennessee

1 Ranked Colleges
44 Degrees Awarded
$6,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor's in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 3,546 people earned their degree in legal studies, making the major the 225th most popular in the United States.

Across Tennessee, there were 44 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 44 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality legal studies programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k.

#1

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, Tennessee
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Legal Studies Schools for a Bachelor’s in Tennessee For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, Vanderbilt University landed the #1 spot on the list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 21 bachelors’s legal studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Vanderbilt did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee” list. The estimated yearly cost for Vanderbilt University is $6,017 for tennessee bachelor’s degree legal studies students whose families make $30-$48k.

The school has an impressive student loan default rate. It’s only 1.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 96%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.

Read full report on Legal Studies at Vanderbilt

Notes and References

References

  • 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 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).
  • Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees are for the top schools only.
  • Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.

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