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2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

5 Colleges
$22,865 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$60,467 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.

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.

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

$9,848 Average Tuition & Fees

Our analysis found The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga to be the best value school for legal professions students who want to pursue a degree in Tennessee. UT Chattanooga is a fairly large public school located in the 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.

Full Legal Professions at The University of Tennessee - Chattanooga Report

$13,244 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, The University of Tennessee - Knoxville landed the # 2 spot on the list. UT Knoxville is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Knoxville.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state undergraduate at UT Knoxville are $13,244 a year.

UT Knoxville also took the #4 spot in our Best Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee rankings.

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#3

University of Memphis

Memphis, TN
$10,056 Average Tuition & Fees

Out of the 5 schools in Tennessee that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Memphis landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the city of Memphis, UofM is a public school with a very large student population.

UofM undergraduate students pay an average of $10,056 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Legal Professions at University of Memphis Report

#4

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN
$56,966 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Vanderbilt University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list. Vanderbilt is a large private not-for-profit school located in the 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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$24,210 Average Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Lincoln Memorial University. The school came in at #5 on this year’s Best Value Legal Professions Schools in Tennessee list. Located in the distant town of Harrogate, LMU is a private not-for-profit school with a medium-sized student population.

In-state tuition fees for undergraduate students at LMU are $24,210 per year.

Full Legal Professions at Lincoln Memorial University Report

Explore all the Best Value Legal Professions Colleges 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 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).
  • Credit for the banner image above goes to The wub.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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