Best Title Examiner programs in Texas, ranked by enrollment
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32 schools in Texas run programs that feed this job, graduating 914 people a year. The job pays a median of $60,120 in Texas across about 6,770 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).
Fields of study in Texas that lead to this job
Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.
1 programs in Texas that lead to this job
Ranked by graduates per year in Texas (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own Texas page.
| # | Program | Graduates / yr | Share of pipeline | Schools | Grad earnings (1 yr) | Median debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CIP 22.0302In Texas → | 914 | 100.0% | 32 | $37,542 | $25,166 |
Top 25 schools in Texas
Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 7 of the 32 schools in this state.
| # | School | Graduates / yr | Top feeder program | Grad earnings (1 yr) | Grad rate | Net price | Acceptance |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Center for Advanced Legal Studies Houston, TX Private for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 212 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $39,387 | 62% | $10,957 | — |
| 2 | Houston City College Houston, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 98 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 17% | — | — |
| 3 | Dallas College Dallas, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 62 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $33,381 | 32% | — | — |
| 4 | Lone Star College System The Woodlands, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 62 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $36,678 | 21% | — | — |
| 5 | Austin Community College District Austin, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 43 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $46,216 | 20% | — | — |
| 6 | Arlington Career Institute Arlington, TX Private for-profit · 1 feeder programs | 42 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 72% | $25,603 | — |
| 7 | Collin County Community College District McKinney, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 34 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 20% | — | — |
| 8 | San Jacinto Community College Pasadena, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 28 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 30% | — | — |
| 9 | East Texas A&M University Commerce, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 27 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 43% | — | 92% |
| 10 | Alvin Community College Alvin, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 23 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 24% | — | — |
| 11 | Tarrant County College District Fort Worth, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 23 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $38,404 | 34% | — | — |
| 12 | Amarillo College Amarillo, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 20 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 32% | — | — |
| 13 | Lee College Baytown, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 19 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 53% | — | — |
| 14 | South Plains College Levelland, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 19 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 29% | — | — |
| 15 | El Paso Community College El Paso, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 18 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 24% | — | — |
| 16 | Odessa College Odessa, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 18 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 37% | — | — |
| 17 | Navarro College Corsicana, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 17 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 23% | — | — |
| 18 | San Antonio College San Antonio, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 17 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 26% | — | — |
| 19 | Central Texas College Killeen, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 15 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 11% | — | — |
| 20 | Kilgore College Kilgore, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 15 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 39% | — | — |
| 21 | Midland College Midland, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 14 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 23% | — | — |
| 22 | University of Houston - Clear Lake Houston, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 14 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | $42,723 | 52% | — | 91% |
| 23 | South Texas College McAllen, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 12 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 27% | — | — |
| 24 | Angelina College Lufkin, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 11 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 29% | — | — |
| 25 | Tyler Junior College Tyler, TX Public · 1 feeder programs | 11 | Legal Assistant/Paralegal | — | 27% | — | — |
All 32 schools in Texas
Every school in Texas with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.
| School | City | Control | Graduates / yr | Feeder programs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Center for Advanced Legal Studies | Houston | Private for-profit | 212 | 1 |
| Houston City College | Houston | Public | 98 | 1 |
| Dallas College | Dallas | Public | 62 | 1 |
| Lone Star College System | The Woodlands | Public | 62 | 1 |
| Austin Community College District | Austin | Public | 43 | 1 |
| Arlington Career Institute | Arlington | Private for-profit | 42 | 1 |
| Collin County Community College District | McKinney | Public | 34 | 1 |
| San Jacinto Community College | Pasadena | Public | 28 | 1 |
| East Texas A&M University | Commerce | Public | 27 | 1 |
| Alvin Community College | Alvin | Public | 23 | 1 |
| Tarrant County College District | Fort Worth | Public | 23 | 1 |
| Amarillo College | Amarillo | Public | 20 | 1 |
| Lee College | Baytown | Public | 19 | 1 |
| South Plains College | Levelland | Public | 19 | 1 |
| El Paso Community College | El Paso | Public | 18 | 1 |
What title examiners, abstractors, and searchers earn in Texas
What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.
U.S. median $58,650. Texas pays above the national figure.
Concentrated here: Texas employs more of this job per worker than the U.S. average.
Metro areas in Texas
Job outlook
Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.
Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.
How to get in
The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers page.
How to become a Title Examiner
Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0- Typical entry education
- High school diploma or equivalent
- On-the-job training
- Moderate-term on-the-job training
Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.
Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.
Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.
Top skills
The same job in other states
Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.
Related careers in Texas
Every major mapped to this job
The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.
All 1 majors mapped to Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
- 22.0302Legal Assistant/Paralegal
Common questions
Answers for people weighing title examiners, abstractors, and searchers programs in Texas.
What degree do you need to become a Title Examiner?+
High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Legal Assistant/Paralegal, which awarded 914 degrees in Texas in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.
Which college majors lead to becoming a Title Examiner?+
The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Legal Support Services. Together they graduate about 914 people a year in Texas.
How much do title examiners, abstractors, and searchers earn in Texas?+
The median is $60,120 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 2.5% above the U.S. median of $58,650. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.
Is demand for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers growing?+
BLS projects a +2.0% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 5,400 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.
How many schools offer programs for this career in Texas?+
32 institutions in Texas reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.
What other job titles do title examiners, abstractors, and searchers work under?+
Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Abstractor, Title Officer, Title Examiner, Title Searcher among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 23-2093.
About the data on this page
Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).
BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics
May 2025Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.
BLS Employment Projections
2024–34Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.
IPEDS Completions
2024-25 (provisional)Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.
College Scorecard, Field of Study
2020-21 cohortsMedian graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.
Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes
latest availableGraduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.
NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk
CIP 2020 / SOC 2018Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.
O*NET Database 30.3
30.3Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.
Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA
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