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Private law school in Houston, Texas, USA

U. S. News & World Report Rankings of Best Law Schools ranked South Texas College of Law overall 162nd, out of the 196 accredited law schools in the United States. In 2023, its part time program was ranked 57th in the country out of the 70 law schools considered.

South Texas College of Law Houston was named the #1 law school of the decade in moot court competitions, holding the most national championships of any public or private law school in the U. S., by PreLaw Magazine.

The South Texas College of Law trial advocacy program consistently ranks in the top 10 of the nation. South Texas College of Law Houston's moot court program was ranked 1st in the nation according to data compiled by the University of Houston Law Center’s Blakely Advocacy Institute in 2018 and has consistently ranked in the top 4 ever since. The trial advocacy program at South Texas College of Law Houston was ranked 3rd in the country (tied with Stetson University and American University) for 2023 by U. S. News & World Report. The South Texas College of Law Houston Alternate Dispute Resolution Program (ADR), where students compete in competitive mediations, negotiations, and as mediators, is also highly ranked. In 2020, U. S. News & World Report ranked the South Texas College of Law Houston's dispute resolution program 31st in the nation. Additionally, PreLaw Magazine named South Texas College of Law Houston as "Top Law School for ADR".

Of the South Texas College of Law Houston graduates who took the Texas bar exam for the first time in July 2021, 80.89% passed, vs the overall passage rate of 80.47% for all other law schools of the State of Texas. According to South Texas College of Law Houston's official 2021 ABA required disclosures, 66% of the class of 2021 obtained full time, long term, JD required employment nine months after graduation.

South Texas College of Law Houston is also part of a consortium of four independent ABA and AALS accredited American law schools—California Western School of Law, New England School of Law, and William Mitchell College of Law. In 2017, U. S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg taught a course for South Texas College of Law Houston in Malta. In previous years, Justice Antonin G. Scalia and Chief Justice John Roberts both taught in international study abroad programs.

Total cost of tuition is $35,550 for 2020, for both in state and out of state students. South Texas College of Law continues to be the 6th least expensive law school in Texas out of a total of 10. The total cost of attendance (indicating the cost of tuition, fees, and living expenses) at South Texas for the 2017–2018 academic year was $56,000.

South Texas sponsors the "Direct Representation Clinics", which provide legal representation to low income residents of Harris County, Texas, in the areas of family law, probate, estate planning, and guardianship cases. South Texas is also the first Texas law school to provide $400 each month toward student loan indebtedness for its alumni working for nonprofit legal aid organizations that provide services to the poor.

In 1998, South Texas College of Law Houston (at that time, called South Texas College of Law) tried to merge with Texas A&M University under a private/public partnership. Under the proposal, the law school would have remained a private school, but would have been branded as the Texas A&M Law Center and would have awarded law degrees under the A&M seal. The deal went sour after a lengthy legal fight with the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, the governing body of the state's public institutions. The courts ruled that the schools had failed to obtain the board's approval before entering into the agreement. The University of Houston and other institutions voiced concern about the partnership. In 2013, Texas A&M University entered into a similar arrangement with the Texas Wesleyan School of Law in Fort Worth, Texas, thereby creating the Texas A&M University School of Law.

Until mid 2016, the law school was called "South Texas College of Law". On June 22, 2016, the day on which South Texas College of Law announced a name change to "Houston College of Law", the University of Houston (which has its college of law within the University of Houston Law Center) announced that the University was "concerned about the significant confusion this creates in the marketplace and will take any and all appropriate legal actions to protect the interests of our institution, our brand, and our standing in the communities we serve." The University of Houston System filed a lawsuit on June 27, 2016, in the United States District Court in Houston. On October 14, 2016, the U. S. District Court issued a preliminary injunction requiring that South Texas College of law stop using the name "Houston College of Law," pending further developments in the case. On November 7, 2016, the dean of the law school announced that the name would be changed to "South Texas College of Law Houston".