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Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

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2023 Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$29,038 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$46,213 Avg Salary

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is the #181 most popular major in the country with 444 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Southwest Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southwest Region to see which master's degree programs offered the best value experiences for non-professional general legal studies students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Non-Professional General Legal Studies Master's Degree Colleges.

Our analysis found Arizona State University - Tempe to be the best value school for non-professional general legal studies students who want to pursue a master’s degree in the Southwest Region . ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Tempe.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at ASU - Tempe are $24,432 per year.

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#2

University of Arizona

Tucson, AZ

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Arizona. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Non-Professional Legal Studies Master’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region list. Located in the large city of Tucson, University of Arizona is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at University of Arizona are $33,644 a year.

Full Non-Professional General Legal Studies at University of Arizona Report

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State Degrees Awarded
Texas 29
Arizona 99

Non-Professional General Legal Studies is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).
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