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2022 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Legal Assistant/Paralegal in the Southwest Region (With Aid)

5 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$15,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Assistant/Paralegal is the 123rd most popular major in the country with 9,938 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,449 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid” ranking analyzed 5 colleges that offered a degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent legal assistant/paralegal programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the legal assistant/paralegal program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree paralegal students with aid.

#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid list. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 21 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s paralegal students in 2019-2020.

UH Clear Lake did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $10,612 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Paralegal students with aid per year to attend UH Clear Lake.

Full University of Houston - Clear Lake Legal Assistant/Paralegal Report

#2

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma
#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend East Central University. The school came in at #2 for the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. ECU is located in Ada, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 6 bachelors’s paralegal degrees to qualified students.

ECU also took the #4 spot in our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend East Central University is $10,334 for southwest region bachelor’s degree paralegal students with aid.

Full ECU Legal Assistant/Paralegal Report

#3 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M University - Commerce landed the #3 spot on the list. Texas A&M University - Commerce is a fairly large school located in Commerce, Texas that handed out 10 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree paralegal students with aid list, Texas A&M Commerce has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The yearly cost to attend Texas A&M Commerce is $13,017 for southwest region bachelor’s degree paralegal students with aid.

Read full report on Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Texas A&M Commerce

#4

Texas Wesleyan University

Fort Worth, Texas
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Wesleyan University. The school came in at #4 for the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Texas Wesleyan is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Fort Worth, Texas. It awarded 7 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Texas Wesleyan, the school also landed the #2 spot in our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for Texas Wesleyan is $23,473 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Paralegal students with aid.

Read more about Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Texas Wesleyan

#5

Bryan University

Tempe, Arizona
#5 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Bryan University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Paralegal Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Getting Aid. Located in Tempe, Arizona, this small private for-profit school awarded 15 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s paralegal students in 2019-2020.

Bryan University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #5 on our “Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Bryan University is $17,472 for southwest region bachelor’s degree paralegal students with aid.

Read more about Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Bryan University

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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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