2023 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 4,407 people earned their degree in non-professional general legal studies, making the major the 143rd most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, non-professional general legal studies graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $38,632 and had an average of $33,872 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 533 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $30,873 and $33,833 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 108 non-professional general legal studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s” ranking, we looked at 3 colleges that offer a degree in non-professional general legal studies. This ranking identifies schools that graduate the most students in non-professional general legal studies.

For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s

The following schools top our list of the Best “Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s”.

Top 3 Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies in the Southwest Region

1

University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona

#19 overall quality in Southwest

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Arizona. The school came in at #1 for the Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s. Tucson, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees to 89 students in 2020-2021.

Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.

Read more about Non-Professional General Legal Studies at University of Arizona

2

Texas State University
San Marcos, Texas

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 12 masters’s non-professional general legal studies degrees in 2020-2021.

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3

Arizona State University - Tempe
Tempe, Arizona

#14 overall quality in Southwest

Out of the 3 schools in the Most Well Attended Non-Professional General Legal Studies Major in the Southwest Region for a Master’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Tempe landed the #3 spot on the list. Arizona State University - Tempe is a public institution located in Tempe, Arizona. The school has a large population, and it awarded 7 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.5%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.

Read full report on Non-Professional General Legal Studies at ASU - Tempe

• Most Popular Master’s Degree Colleges for Non-Professional General Legal Studies

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

• *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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