Legal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Fordham University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in legal research, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Part-time graduates at Fordham U paid an average of $963 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for graduate student.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $23,112 | $23,112 |
Fees | $734 | $734 |
Fordham U does not offer an online option for its legal research master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Fordham U Online Learning page.
Women made up around 87.5% of the legal research students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 57.8%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in legal research at Fordham U in 2019-2020, 25.0% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 5 |
Black or African American | 2 |
Hispanic or Latino | 3 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 14 |
International Students | 21 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 3 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Intellectual Property Law | 16 |
Other Legal Research & Advanced Professional Studies | 32 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to legal research.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Legal Professions (Other) | 109 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.