If you pursue a degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #28 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for law students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,966 degrees in law annually.
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Law Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.
If you'd like to restrict your choices to just one part of the country, you can filter this list by location.
In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the law degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in law needs to look into Arizona State University - Tempe. ASU - Tempe is a very large public university located in the city of Tempe.
Soon after graduation, law degree recipients usually make an average of $72,119 in their early careers.
University of Arizona is a wonderful choice for students pursuing a degree in law. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a very large student population.
Graduates who receive their degree from the law program earn an average of $61,710 in the first couple years of their career.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
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 the rest 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).