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2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region

5 Ranked Colleges
63 Degrees Awarded
$15,000 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Legal Support Services is the 105th most popular major in the country with 10,854 degrees awarded in 2019-2020. In 2017-2018, legal support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $29,484 and had an average of $23,785 in loans still to pay off.

Across the Southwest region, there were 1,613 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $29,772 and $19,491 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 63 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in legal support services. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great legal support services programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the legal support services program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we’ve developed a number of rankings, including this “Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region” list, to help you choose the best school for you.

You can create your own custom comparison that focuses on the factors most important to you using our tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree legal support students.

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

UH Clear Lake also made our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list, coming in at #1. It costs about $10,612 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students per year to attend UH Clear Lake.

Read more about Legal Support Services at University of Houston - Clear Lake

#2

East Central University

Ada, Oklahoma

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Central University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Ada, Oklahoma, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree legal support students list, ECU has also earned the #4 rank in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $10,334 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students per year to attend ECU.

Read more about Legal Support Services at ECU

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region list. Texas A&M University - Commerce is a fairly large school located in Commerce, Texas that handed out 10 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our southwest region bachelor’s degree legal support students list, Texas A&M Commerce has also earned the #3 rank in our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. It costs about $13,017 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students per year to attend Texas A&M University - Commerce.

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#4

Texas Wesleyan University

Fort Worth, Texas

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Wesleyan University landed the #4 spot on the list. Texas Wesleyan is a small school located in Fort Worth, Texas that handed out 7 bachelors’s legal support 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 Support Services 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 Legal Support students.

Read more about Legal Support Services at Texas Wesleyan

#5

Bryan University

Tempe, Arizona
#5 in overall quality

Out of the 5 schools in the Best Value Legal Support Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bryan University landed the #5 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 legal support degrees to 15 students in 2019-2020.

Bryan University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #5 on our “Best Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. It costs about $17,472 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Legal Support students per year to attend 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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