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Northwestern University Doctorate in Legal Professions

278 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

Legal Professions is a program of study at Northwestern University. The school offers a doctor’s degree in the area. Here, you’ll find out more about the major doctor’s degree program in legal professions, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.

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$56,567 Average Tuition and Fees

Northwestern Graduate Tuition and Fees

Part-time graduates at Northwestern paid an average of $6,649 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 StateOut of State
Tuition$56,067$56,067
Fees$500$500

Online degrees for the Northwestern legal professions doctor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Northwestern Online Learning page.

278 Doctor's Degrees Awarded
51.4% Women
29.9% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2019-2020 academic year, 278 students received their doctor’s degree in legal professions. The gender and racial-ethnic breakdown of those individuals is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 51.4% of the legal professions students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 52.5%.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Of those graduates who received a doctor’s degree in legal professions at Northwestern in 2019-2020, 29.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 30%.

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Race/EthnicityNumber of Students
Asian28
Black or African American16
Hispanic or Latino34
Native American or Alaska Native0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander0
White143
International Students16
Other Races/Ethnicities41

Legal Professions students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus AreaAnnual Graduates
Law278

References

*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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