Largest law schools in Tennessee by degrees awarded
Vanderbilt University ranks first with 168 law degrees in 2024–25, according to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection.
5 law schools in Tennessee awarded 613 law degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 18th of the 49 states and DC with a law school. Vanderbilt University awarded the most, 168.
Law degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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| Rank | Name | law degrees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vanderbilt University | 168 |
| 2 | The University of Tennessee-Knoxville | 124 |
| 3 | Belmont University | 117 |
| 4 | Lincoln Memorial University | 108 |
| 5 | University of Memphis | 96 |
What this data cannot show
- A law school here is a college that awarded at least one degree in NCES's program 22.0101, Law, at NCES's doctor's professional-practice level.
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- Every institution in Tennessee in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
- The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.
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Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 30, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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