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2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s

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59 Degrees Awarded
$31,635 Avg Salary
Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor's

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Legal Professions is the 16th most popular major in the country with 61,055 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal professions graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $47,649 and had an average of $28,699 in loans still to pay off.

Across Tennessee, there were 755 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,467 and $19,560 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 59 legal professions graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,466 and $26,819 respectively.

For this year’s “Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in legal professions. To top this list, a school must have a successful legal professions program that graduates more students in the field than other colleges that offer the same major.

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The colleges and universities below are the best for tennessee bachelor’s degree legal professions students.

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Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s list. Vanderbilt University is a fairly large school located in Nashville, Tennessee that handed out 34 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 0.9%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%. With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 96%.

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Lipscomb University
Nashville, Tennessee

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lipscomb University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s list. Nashville, Tennessee is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out bachelors’s legal professions degrees to 17 students in 2020-2021.

The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

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Belmont University
Nashville, Tennessee

Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, Belmont University landed the #3 spot on the list. This medium-sized school is located in Nashville, Tennessee, and it awarded 6 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 2.5%, 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 The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga. The school came in at #4 for the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s. Located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this fairly large public school handed out 1 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal professions students in 2020-2021.

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South College
Knoxville, Tennessee

Out of the 6 schools in the Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s that were part of this year’s ranking, South College landed the #4 spot on the list. South College is a medium-sized private for-profit school situated in Knoxville, Tennessee. It awarded 1 bachelors’s legal professions degrees in 2020-2021.

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Southern Adventist University
Collegedale, Tennessee

With a ranking of #6, Southern Adventist University did quite well on the 2023 Most Well Attended Legal Professions Major in Tennessee for a Bachelor’s list. Southern Adventist University is a private not-for-profit institution located in Collegedale, Tennessee. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

The low undergrad student loan default rate of 4.5% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.

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