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. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region” ranking.
Legal Assistant/Paralegal is the 123rd most popular major in the country with 10,611 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 1,544 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 62 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region” ranking analyzed 7 colleges that offered a degree in legal assistant/paralegal. That schools that top this list have a program in legal assistant/paralegal in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region” list to help you make the college decision.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region”.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Wesleyan University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region list. Fort Worth, Texas is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s paralegal degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
Full Texas Wesleyan University Legal Assistant/Paralegal Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, East Central University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Ada, Oklahoma, this small public school awarded 13 degrees to qualified bachelors’s paralegal students in 2020-2021.
Full East Central University Legal Assistant/Paralegal Report
Out of the 7 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bryan University landed the #3 spot on the list. Tempe, Arizona is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s paralegal degrees to 9 students in 2020-2021.
Read full report on Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Bryan University
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Houston - Clear Lake. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region list. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school awarded 18 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s paralegal students 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%.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region. Texas A&M Commerce is a public institution located in Commerce, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 12 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
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Stephen F Austin State University landed the #6 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Nacogdoches, Texas is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s paralegal degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.
With a ranking of #6, Tarleton State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in the Southwest Region list. Tarleton is a fairly large school located in Stephenville, Texas that handed out 0 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2020-2021.
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