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2023 Best Value Law Schools in Georgia

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$25,607 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$56,429 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Law School for You

In 2020-2021, 879 degrees and certificates were awarded to law students who went to a Georgia college or university. This makes it the #28 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

The Best Value Law Schools in Georgia ranking is one of many tools that Course Advisor has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Georgia to see which programs offered the best value experiences for law students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Law Schools in Georgia

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Law Colleges.

Best Georgia Schools for Affordable Quality in Law

#1

University of Georgia

Athens, GA
$12,068 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found University of Georgia to be the best value school for law students who want to pursue a degree in Georgia. Located in the medium-sized city of Athens, UGA is a public school with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UGA are $12,068 a year.

UGA also took the #3 spot in our Best Law Schools in Georgia rankings.

Full Law at University of Georgia Report

$9,286 Average Tuition & Fees

A rank of #2 on this year’s list means Georgia State University is a great value for law students. Georgia State is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Atlanta.

Georgia State undergraduate students pay an average of $9,286 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Law at Georgia State University Report

#3

Emory University

Atlanta, GA
$55,468 Average Tuition & Fees

The excellent programs at Emory University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best law schools in Georgia. Emory is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Atlanta.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at Emory are $55,468 a year.

Emory also took the #2 spot in our Best Law Schools in Georgia rankings.

Read full report on Law at Emory University

Out of the 4 schools in Georgia that were part of this year’s ranking, Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School landed the # 4 spot on the list. AJMLS is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the large city of Atlanta.

Full Law at Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School Report

Best Value Law Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Law Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 1,111
North Carolina 1,005
Florida 2,043
Tennessee 597
Kentucky 347
South Carolina 388
Louisiana 719
Arkansas 241
Alabama 305
Mississippi 236
West Virginia 104

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

Related Major Annual Graduates
Legal Support Services 11,545
Legal Research 6,874
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 4,407
Legal Professions (Other) 2,013

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 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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