2025 Best Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Ranked #2 in popularity, legal professions is one of the most sought-after doctor's degree programs in the nation. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 2,840 doctor's degrees in legal professions during the 2022-2023 academic year.

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal professions students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal professions students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• 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.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for legal professions to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal professions related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal professions students working on their doctor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Legal Professions Schools

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 Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Legal Professions in the Southwest Region

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in legal professions.

Top Southwest Region Schools for a Doctorate in Legal Professions

1

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

263 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Arizona State University - Tempe if you want to pursue a doctor's degree in legal professions. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public university located in the medium-sized city of Tempe.More information about a doctorate in legal professions from Arizona State University - Tempe

2

University of Arizona
Tucson, AZ

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

95 Annual Graduates

University of Arizona is a wonderful decision for individuals pursuing a doctor's degree in legal professions. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a doctorate in legal professions from University of Arizona

Best Legal Professions Colleges by State

Explore the best legal professions colleges for a specific state in the Southwest Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Texas	29	2,045
Arizona	28	401
Oklahoma	26	395
New Mexico	23	105

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Legal Professions Majors to Study

Major	Annual Graduates
Law	2,835
Legal Research	3
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	2

Most Popular Related Majors

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting	57

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).
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