by our College Data Analytics TeamLegal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Georgetown 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, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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Part-time graduates at Georgetown paid an average of $2,214 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $53,136 | $53,136 |
| Fees | $455 | $455 |
The median early career salary of legal research students who receive their master’s degree from Georgetown is $111,196 per year. That is 63% higher than the national average of $68,119.
Online degrees for the Georgetown legal research master’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Georgetown Online Learning page.
Women made up around 57.7% of the legal research students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 57.8%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in legal research at Georgetown in 2019-2020, 12.7% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 17%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 13 |
| Black or African American | 24 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 31 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 2 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 1 |
| White | 88 |
| International Students | 426 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 63 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Advanced Legal Research/Studies | 179 |
| Energy, Environment, & Natural Resources Law | 12 |
| Health Law | 26 |
| International Law & Legal Studies | 123 |
| International Business, Trade, & Tax Law | 131 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to legal research.
| Related Major | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Legal Support Services | 15 |
*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.
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