2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s

Veterans have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking - to help you make that decision.

In 2020-2021, 4,407 people earned their degree in non-professional general legal studies, making the major the 143rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,632 and had an average of $33,872 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 533 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,873 and $33,833 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 287 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in non-professional general legal studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent non-professional general legal studies programs, but they also offer a lot of support to veterans and active service members.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as veteran satisfaction, veteran affordability, and overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s”.

Top 2 Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Veterans in the Southwest Region

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

7,566 GI Bill® Students**

#1 in overall quality

YES Student Veterans Organization

Out of the 2 schools in the Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this large public school awarded 106 degrees to qualified bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies students in 2020-2021.

ASU - Tempe also made our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1.According to our most recent data, ASU - Tempe supports 74,795 students, and 7,566 of those are GI Bill® students, of which 3,828 are Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $6,068. In addition to receiving other benefits, 672 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program. Eligible students may be able to receive credit for their military training.

With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only [DEFAULT_RATE_STRING]%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full Arizona State University - Tempe Veteran Student Life Report

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National Paralegal College
Phoenix, Arizona

46 GI Bill® Students**

#3 in overall quality

$4,791 Average GI Bill® Award

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend National Paralegal College. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Veteran Friendly in the Southwest Region for Non-Professional General Legal Studies for a Bachelor’s list. Located in Phoenix, Arizona, this small private for-profit school handed out 39 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s non-professional general legal studies students in 2020-2021.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree vets studying non-professional general legal studies list, National Paralegal College has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking.Our most recent data shows that 46 of the 693 students enrolled at National Paralegal College were GI Bill® students, of which 26 were Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients. The average tuition and fees award for the Post-9/11 GI Bill® recipients was $4,791. In addition to receiving other benefits, 0 students qualified for the Yellow Ribbon Program.

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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).
• Veteran-specific data can be found at the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs.
• 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

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• **GI Bill® student total includes all chapters of the GI Bill® program (e.g., Post-9/11, Montgomery GI Bill, Reserve Education Assistance Program, and Veteran Readiness and Employment)
• 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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