2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Law & Legal Studies in the Southwest Region

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International Law & Legal Studies is the 757th most popular major in the country with 485 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.

Across the Southwest region, there were 4 international law & legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 4 international law & legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,505 and $37,295 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Law and Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in international law & legal studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their international law & legal studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Law and Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region master’s degree international law and legal studies students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for International Law & Legal Studies in the Southwest Region

1

University of Houston
Houston, Texas

Top 15% overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Houston. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Law and Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region. This large school is located in Houston, Texas, and it awarded 4 masters’s international law and legal studies degrees in 2021-2022.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 85%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read more about International Law & Legal Studies at University of Houston

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St. Mary's University
San Antonio, Texas

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend St. Mary’s University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on International Law and Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region. St. Mary’s is located in San Antonio, Texas and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 0 masters’s international law and legal studies degrees to qualified students.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Full St. Mary’s International Law & Legal Studies Report

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

• *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.