2025 Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #250 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to determine which ones were the best for legal assistant/paralegal students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 bachelor's degrees in legal assistant/paralegal during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on legal assistant/paralegal students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other legal assistant/paralegal students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal assistant/paralegal related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal assistant/paralegal students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list, to help you choose the best school for you.

To further help you make the college decision, we've developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Legal Assistant/Paralegal in the Southwest Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Paralegal

1

University of Houston - Clear Lake
Houston, TX

20 Annual Graduates

Every student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal has to take a look at University of Houston - Clear Lake. UH Clear Lake is a medium-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Houston.More information about a bachelor’s in legal assistant/paralegal from University of Houston - Clear Lake

2

Bryan University
Tempe, AZ

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

20 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal has to check out Bryan University. Located in the medium-sized city of Tempe, Bryan University is a private for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in legal assistant/paralegal from Bryan University

Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Colleges by State

Explore the best legal assistant/paralegal colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	572	40
Oklahoma	377	13
Arizona	356	9

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Rankings in Majors Related to Paralegal

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Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.