Ohio State University - Main Campus Doctorate in Law

The main focus area for this major is Law. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.

Law is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Ohio State University - Main Campus. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the doctor’s degree program in law, 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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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Law from Ohio State Cost?

$12,425 Average Tuition and Fees

Ohio State Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Ohio State was $2,267 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $723 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$11,560	$36,276
Fees	$865	$865

Does Ohio State Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

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

Ohio State Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

208 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

44.2% Women

21.2% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

In the 2019-2020 academic year, 208 students received their doctor’s degree in law. The gender and racial-ethnic breakdown of those individuals is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

About 44.2% of the students who received their Doctorate in law in 2019-2020 were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 52.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 21.2% of the law doctor’s degrees at Ohio State in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	13
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	155
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	16

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at Ohio State

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	208

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.