University of Louisville 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 University of Louisville. Here, you’ll find out more about the major doctor’s degree program in law, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.

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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Law from UofL Cost?

$13,461 Average Tuition and Fees

UofL Graduate Tuition and Fees

During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at UofL paid an average of $1,521 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $737 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$13,260	$27,374
Fees	$201	$201

Does UofL Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

UofL 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 UofL Online Learning page.

UofL Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

127 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

55.1% Women

12.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

In the 2019-2020 academic year, 127 students received their doctor’s degree in law. The gender and racial-ethnic breakdown of those individuals is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 55.1% of the law students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. 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 UofL in 2019-2020, 12.6% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	4
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	1
White	110
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at UofL

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	127

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.