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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

5 Colleges
$8,580 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$29,801 Avg Salary

With 3,012 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, legal professions is the #20 most popular major in Texas.

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

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 5 schools in Texas to see which ones offered the best value associate degree programs for legal professions students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

Check out the legal professions associate degree programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

#1

El Centro College

Dallas, TX

Our 2023 rankings named El Centro College the best value school in Texas for legal professions students working on their associate degree. El Centro College is a very large public school located in the city of Dallas.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at El Centro College are $4,050 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, El Centro College is ranked #2 for overall quality for legal professions in Texas.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means San Jacinto Community College is a great value for legal professions students working on their associate degree. San Jacinto College is a fairly large public school located in the suburb of Pasadena.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at San Jacinto College are $3,240 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Tarrant County College District. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas list. Located in the large city of Fort Worth, Tarrant County College is a public school with a very large student population.

Tarrant County College undergraduate students pay an average of $3,402 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its great value ranking, Tarrant County College is in the top 15% of all schools on our Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Austin Community College District. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas list. Austin Community College District is a fairly large public school located in the large city of Austin.

Austin Community College District undergraduate students pay an average of $8,580 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Austin Community College District also claimed a spot on our Best Legal Professions Associate Degree Schools in Texas list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

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Out of the 5 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Center for Advanced Legal Studies landed the # 5 spot on the list. Center for Advanced Legal Studies is a fairly small private for-profit school located in the city of Houston.

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

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 1,593
New Mexico 173
Oklahoma 708

Major Annual Graduates
Law 36,216
Legal Support Services 11,545
Legal Research 6,874
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 4,407
Legal Professions (Other) 2,013

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting 142,610
Public Administration & Social Service 98,583
Parks, Recreation, Leisure, & Fitness Studies 73,813
Military Technologies & Applied Sciences 4,477

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 5 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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