2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region” ranking - to help you make that decision.
In 2020-2021, 586 people earned their degree in pre-law, making the major the 576th most popular in the United States.
Across the Southwest region, there were 93 pre-law graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 17 pre-law graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 4 colleges that offered a degree in pre-law. That schools that top this list have a program in pre-law in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree pre-law students.
Top 4 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Pre-Law in the Southwest Region
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Howard Payne University landed the #1 spot on the list. Brownwood, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s pre-law degrees to 6 students in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
Read full report on Pre-Law at Howard Payne University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Oklahoma Christian University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region list. Oklahoma Christian University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 4.8%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read more about Pre-Law at OC
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Northern Arizona University landed the #3 spot on the list. NAU is a large public school situated in Flagstaff, Arizona. It awarded 7 bachelors’s pre-law degrees in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
Read full report on Pre-Law at Northern Arizona University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Pre-Law Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Central Oklahoma landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Edmond, Oklahoma, this fairly large public school awarded 2 degrees to qualified bachelors’s pre-law students in 2020-2021.
Full University of Central Oklahoma Pre-Law Report
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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
- *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.
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