2022 Best Value Pre-Law Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Pre-Law Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 540 people earned their degree in pre-law, making the major the 633rd most popular in the United States.

Across the Southwest region, there were 89 pre-law graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 66 pre-law graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent pre-law programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the pre-law program at the school. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Best Value Pre-Law Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Pre-Law Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Law in the Southwest Region

#1

Central New Mexico Community College

Albuquerque, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$3,429 Average Net Price

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Pre-Law Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Central New Mexico Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. CNM is located in Albuquerque, New Mexico and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 37 associates’s pre-law degrees to qualified students.

CNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Pre-Law Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $3,429 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Pre-Law students per year to attend CNM.

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• Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Pre-Law

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

• *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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