Legal Research is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #114 most popular degree program in the country. This means you won't have too much trouble finding schools that offer the degree.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for legal research students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 536 degrees in legal research to qualified students.
Your choice of legal research school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Legal Research School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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The schools below may not offer all types of legal research degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
University of Arizona is a great option for students interested in a degree in legal research. University of Arizona is a very large public university located in the city of Tucson. This university ranks 3rd out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 68 legal research students who graduated with this degree at University of Arizona in the most recent year we have data available.
Arizona State University - Tempe is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in legal research. Located in the city of Tempe, ASU - Tempe is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #108 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means ASU - Tempe is a great university overall.
There were about 142 legal research students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent data year. Students who graduate with their degree from the legal research program report average early career earnings of $55,326.
Arizona State University - Skysong is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in legal research. ASU - Skysong is a very large public university located in the midsize city of Scottsdale. This university ranks 8th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 296 legal research students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Skysong in the most recent year we have data available. Students who graduate with their degree from the legal research program state that they receive average early career income of $55,326.
It is difficult to beat National Paralegal College if you want to pursue a degree in legal research. National Paralegal College is a small private for-profit college located in the city of Phoenix.
There were approximately 30 legal research students who graduated with this degree at National Paralegal College in the most recent year we have data available. Students who receive their degree from the legal research program earn an average of $42,727 for their early 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).