2024 Best Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Texas
a master's degree in
legal research is more popular than many other degrees. In fact, it ranks #37 out of 343 on popularity of all such degrees in the nation. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual reviewed 5 schools in Texas to determine which ones were the best for master's degree seekers in the field of legal research. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 261 master's degrees in legal research during the 2020-2021 academic year.
What's on this page: * Our Methodology
Choosing a Great Legal Research School for Your Master's Degree
Your choice of legal research for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality legal research program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a master's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To account for this we include a college's overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking which itself looks at a host of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
Early-Career Earnings
One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.
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 legal research students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - The number of legal research students who choose to seek a master'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.
- Student Debt - How easy is it for legal research to pay back their student loans after receiving their master's degree.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal research related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for legal research students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Legal Research Schools
The legal research 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 the Best Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Texas.
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Featured Legal Research Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.