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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

8 Colleges
$15,659 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, legal professions students earned 2,357 degrees and certificates from a Texas school, making the subject the 7th in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right 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.

The Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 8 schools in Texas to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for legal professions 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

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

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Texas at Austin the best value school in Texas for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the city of Austin, UT Austin is a public school with a very large student population.

UT Austin graduate students pay an average of $12,050 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

UT Austin also made our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list, coming in at #3.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Texas A&M University - College Station is a great value for legal professions students working on their doctor’s degree. Texas A&M College Station is a very large public school located in the midsize city of College Station.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Texas A&M College Station are $10,733 a year.

Texas A&M College Station also took the #4 spot in our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas rankings.

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#3

University of Houston

Houston, TX

Out of the 8 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Houston landed the # 3 spot on the list. UH is a very large public school located in the large city of Houston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at UH are $9,727 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, UH also did well on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. It’s in the top 20% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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#4

Texas Tech University

Lubbock, TX

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Texas Tech University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Texas. Located in the large city of Lubbock, Texas Tech is a public college with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas Tech are $9,518 per year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas Southern University. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. TSU is a medium-sized public school located in the 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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#6

St. Mary's University

San Antonio, TX

St. Mary’s University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the city of San Antonio, St. Mary's is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

St. Mary’s graduate students pay an average of $19,846 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Southern Methodist University came in at #7 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas ranking. Located in the large 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.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, SMU also did well on our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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South Texas College of Law landed the #8 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree legal professions programs. South Texas College of Law is a fairly small private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Houston.

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State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 955
Oklahoma 632
New Mexico 108

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Research 6,659
Legal Professions (Other) 1,424
Legal Support Services 446
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 444

Related Major Annual Graduates
Public Administration & Social Service 53,252
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 13,045
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 10,452
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 1,613

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 8 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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