Largest law schools in Texas by degrees awarded
South Texas College of Law Houston ranks first with 325 law degrees in 2024–25, according to Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection.
10 law schools in Texas awarded 2,016 law degrees to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 6th of the 49 states and DC with a law school. South Texas College of Law Houston awarded the most, 325.
Law degrees awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
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| Rank | Name | law degrees |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Texas College of Law Houston | 325 |
| 2 | The University of Texas at Austin | 307 |
| 3 | University of Houston | 283 |
| 4 | Southern Methodist University | 225 |
| 5 | St. Mary's University | 208 |
| 6 | Texas Southern University | 163 |
| 7 | Texas Tech University | 136 |
| 8 | Texas A&M University-College Station | 127 |
| 9 | Baylor University | 123 |
| 10 | University of North Texas at Dallas | 119 |
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 Texas 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 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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