by our College Data Analytics Team
When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.
In 2020-2021, 6,874 people earned their degree in legal research, making the major the 114th most popular in the United States. In 2019-2020, legal research graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $66,544 and had an average of $26,000 in loans still to pay off.
Across Texas, there were 262 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,807 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 261 legal research graduates with average earnings and debt of $57,376 and $0 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas” ranking looked at 8 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in legal research. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal research.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend St. Mary’s University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas list. St. Mary’s University is a private not-for-profit institution located in San Antonio, Texas. The school has a small population, and it awarded 41 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Methodist University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Dallas, Texas, this fairly large private not-for-profit school awarded 39 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 90%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - College Station landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M College Station is a public institution located in College Station, Texas. The school has a large population, and it awarded 110 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.2%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 94%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the #4 spot on the list. Located in Houston, Texas, this large public school handed out 46 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
With a freshman retention rate of 86%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 4.4%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Out of the 8 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Baylor University landed the #5 spot on the list. Located in Waco, Texas, this large private not-for-profit school handed out 15 degrees to qualified masters’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.2%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 91%.
Texas Southern University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas ranking. TSU is located in Houston, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 2 masters’s legal research degrees to qualified students.
The University of Texas at Austin ranked #7 on this year’s Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas list. Located in Austin, Texas, this large public school handed out 8 diplomas to qualified masters’s legal research students in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 97%.
With a ranking of #8, Wayland Baptist University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Legal Research Major in Texas list. Wayland Baptist University is a small school located in Plainview, Texas that handed out 0 masters’s legal research degrees in 2020-2021.
The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 9 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.
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