Legal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Pepperdine University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in legal research, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at Pepperdine paid an average of $0 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $36,200 | $36,200 |
Fees | $120 | $120 |
Online degrees for the Pepperdine 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 Pepperdine Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their master’s degree in legal research in 2019-2020, 77.7% of them were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 57.8%.
Around 56.4% of legal research master’s degree recipients at Pepperdine in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 9 |
Black or African American | 25 |
Hispanic or Latino | 15 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 31 |
International Students | 4 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 10 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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General Advanced Legal Research/Studies | 89 |
American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence | 2 |
International Business, Trade, & Tax Law | 3 |
*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.