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2023 Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Texas

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

6 Colleges
$16,887 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$68,162 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 262 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal research students who went to a Texas college or university. This makes it the #60 most popular major in the state.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Schools in Texas to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 6 schools in Texas to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for legal research students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Legal Research Master's Degree Colleges.

Our analysis found The University of Texas at Austin to be the best value school for legal research students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Texas. Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UT Austin are $12,050 a year.

UT Austin also took the #2 spot in our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Texas rankings.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at Texas A&M University - College Station helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in Texas. Texas A&M College Station is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of College Station.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas A&M College Station are $10,733 per year.

Texas A&M College Station not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #5 on our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Texas list.

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#3

University of Houston

Houston, TX

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of Houston is a great value for legal research students working on their master’s degree. UH is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Houston.

UH graduate students pay an average of $9,727 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#4

St. Mary's University

San Antonio, TX

The excellent master’s degree programs at St. Mary’s University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal research schools in Texas. Located in the large city of San Antonio, St. Mary's is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at St. Mary’s are $19,846 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Southern University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Texas list. TSU is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of Houston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at TSU are $8,328 a year.

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Southern Methodist University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for legal research students to get a master’s degree. It came in at #6 on the list. Located in the suburb of Dallas, SMU is a private not-for-profit school with a large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SMU are $35,802 a year.

As a testament to the quality of education it offers, SMU also is in the top 10% of our Best Legal Research Master’s Degree Schools in Texas ranking.

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Explore all the Best Value Legal Research Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 411
Oklahoma 237
New Mexico 3

One of 4 majors within the area of study, legal research has other similar majors worth exploring.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 6 schools only.

  • 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 the rest 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).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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