2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
In 2021-2022, 3,976 people earned their degree in legal studies, making the major the 195th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 565 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 181 legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in legal studies. That schools that top this list have a program in legal studies in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree legal studies students.
Top 3 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Legal Studies in the Southwest Region
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arizona landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Arizona is a public institution located in Tucson, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 139 masters’s degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Arizona Legal Studies Report
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in San Marcos, Texas, this large public school awarded 30 degrees to qualified masters’s legal studies students in 2021-2022.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Legal Studies at Texas State University
Out of the 3 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is located in Tempe, Arizona and, has a large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 9 masters’s legal studies degrees to qualified students.
Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 86%. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Legal Studies at ASU - Tempe
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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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