2022 Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies 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 Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the 154th most popular major in the country with 4,086 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $35,672 and had an average of $34,776 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 539 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,333 and $23,797 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 66 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,605 and $16,886 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great non-professional general legal studies programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the non-professional general legal studies program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

More Ways to Rank Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools

The non-professional general legal studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region”.

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Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Schools for an Associate in the Southwest Region.

Top 1 Best Value Associate Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies 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 Non-Professional General Legal Studies 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. Located in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this large public school awarded 37 diplomas to qualified associates’s non-professional general legal studies students in 2019-2020.

CNM did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Non-Professional General Legal Studies Associate Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend CNM is $3,429 for Southwest Region Associate Degree Non-Professional General Legal Studies students.

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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

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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