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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$33,407 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$36,390 Avg Salary

In 2020-2021, 732 degrees and certificates were awarded to legal professions students who went to a Tennessee college or university. This makes it the #20 most popular major in the state.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Course Advisor has created its Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 2 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value bachelor's degree programs for legal professions 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. 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.

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

Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga the best value school in Tennessee for legal professions students working on their bachelor’s degree. UT Chattanooga is a large public school located in the medium-sized city of Chattanooga.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at UT Chattanooga are $9,848 per year.

Full Legal Professions at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Report

#2

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list. Vanderbilt is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Nashville.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at Vanderbilt are $56,966 per year.

Vanderbilt not only placed well in our value ranking, but it is also #1 on our Best Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list.

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

State Degrees Awarded
North Carolina 1,307
West Virginia 330
Florida 3,659
Virginia 2,055
Arkansas 284
Mississippi 439
South Carolina 526
Louisiana 936
Alabama 426
Kentucky 423
Georgia 1,180

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 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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More about our data sources and methodologies.

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