2025 Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region

If you pursue a doctor's degree in law, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #1 most popular program in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

College Factual reviewed 4 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for doctor's degree seekers in the field of law. Combined, these schools handed out 8,009 doctor's degrees in law to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Doctor’s Degree Schools List

Choosing a Great Law School for Your Doctor's Degree

The law doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality law program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:

Quality Overall Is Important

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we include a school's overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking which itself looks at a collection of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to law students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of law students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized law related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Law Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Law Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Doctorate Students to Study Law in the Southeast Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a doctor's degree in law.

Top Southeast Region Schools for a Doctorate in Law

1

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

391 Annual Graduates

Every student pursuing a degree in a doctor's degree in law needs to look into University of Miami. Located in the large suburb of Coral Gables, U Miami is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in law from University of Miami

2

University of Georgia
Athens, GA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

178 Annual Graduates

Any student who is interested in a doctor's degree in law has to check out University of Georgia. UGA is a fairly large public university located in the city of Athens.More information about a doctorate in law from University of Georgia

3

University of Mississippi
University, MS

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

160 Annual Graduates

University of Mississippi is a great decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in law. Located in the remote town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a fairly large student population.More information about a doctorate in law from University of Mississippi

4

Liberty University
Lynchburg, VA

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

90 Annual Graduates

Liberty University is a good decision for students pursuing a doctor's degree in law. Liberty University is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Lynchburg.More information about a doctorate in law from Liberty University

Best Law Colleges by State

Explore the best law colleges for a specific state in the Southeast Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	217	2,043
North Carolina	190	1,005
Georgia	190	879
Virginia	182	1,111
Mississippi	154	236
Tennessee	150	597
Louisiana	146	719
Alabama	139	305
South Carolina	135	388
Kentucky	119	347
Arkansas	74	241
West Virginia	61	104

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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). More about our data sources and methodologies.