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Santa Clara University 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 Santa Clara University. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the doctor’s degree program in law, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.

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• Graduate Cost
• Online Learning
• Student Diversity
• Focus Areas
• References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Law from SCU Cost?

SCU Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at SCU was $1,150 per credit hour 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
Tuition	$23,507	$23,507

Does SCU Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

SCU does not offer an online option for its law doctor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the SCU Online Learning page.

SCU Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 207 doctor’s degrees in law handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Of the students who received their doctor’s degree in law in 2019-2020, 57.5% of them were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 52.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Of those graduates who received a doctor’s degree in law at SCU in 2019-2020, 54.6% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	35
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	59
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	3
White	83
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at SCU

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	207

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.

• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.