2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee
Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing
Finding the Best Legal Professions School for You
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.
Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Course Advisor has created the Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 5 schools in Tennessee to see which 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.
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.
Best Tennessee Schools for Affordable Quality in Legal Professions
Our 2023 rankings named The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga the best value school in Tennessee for legal professions students. UT Chattanooga is a fairly 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. Legal Professions majors at UT Chattanooga take out an average of $19,560 in student loans while working on their egree.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend The University of Tennessee - Knoxville. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list. UT Knoxville is a very large public school located in the city of Knoxville.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UT Knoxville are $13,244 a year.
UT Knoxville did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #4 on our Best Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list.
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You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Memphis. The school came in at #3 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list. Located in the large city of Memphis, UofM is a public school with a fairly large student population.
UofM undergraduate students pay an average of $10,056 in in-state tuition and fees each year.
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The excellent programs at Vanderbilt University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best legal professions schools in Tennessee. Vanderbilt is a 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 did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our Best Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list.
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A rank of #5 on this year’s list means Lincoln Memorial University is a great value for legal professions students. Located in the distant town of Harrogate, LMU is a private not-for-profit college with a medium-sized student population.
The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at LMU are $24,210 a year.
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| State | Degrees Awarded |
|---|---|
| North Carolina | 1,307 |
| West Virginia | 330 |
| Mississippi | 439 |
| South Carolina | 526 |
| Florida | 3,659 |
| Virginia | 2,055 |
| Arkansas | 284 |
| Alabama | 426 |
| Kentucky | 423 |
| Georgia | 1,180 |
| Louisiana | 936 |
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Majors Related to Legal Professions
Legal Professions Majors to Study
| 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 |
Most Popular Majors Related to Legal Professions
| 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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