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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$24,139 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,077 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 help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Course Advisor has developed this Best Value Legal Professions Doctor's Degree Schools in Tennessee ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Tennessee to see which ones offered the best value doctor'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 colleges and universities below are the best value schools for legal professions majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

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

UT Knoxville graduate students pay an average of $13,380 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UT Knoxville is ranked #5 for overall quality for legal professions in Tennessee.

Full Legal Professions at The University of Tennessee - Knoxville Report

#2

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list. Located in the large city of Memphis, UofM is a public school with a very large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UofM are $10,908 per year.

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#3

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Vanderbilt University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value legal professions schools in Tennessee. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Nashville.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Vanderbilt are $52,162 per year.

Vanderbilt also made our Best Legal Professions Doctor’s Degree Schools in Tennessee list, coming in at #1.

Full Legal Professions at Vanderbilt University Report

Out of the 4 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, Lincoln Memorial University landed the # 4 spot on the list. Located in the town of Harrogate, LMU is a private not-for-profit college with a moderately-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at LMU are $20,104 per year.

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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 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).
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