by our College Data Analytics TeamThe main focus area for this major is General Advanced Legal Research/Studies. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Legal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at University of Maryland - Baltimore. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the master’s degree program in legal research, 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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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at UMB paid an average of $1,307 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $729 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 | $15,132 | $32,971 |
| Fees | $1,906 | $1,906 |
The median early career salary of legal research students who receive their master’s degree from UMB is $67,324 per year. That is about the same as the national average of $68,119.
Online degrees for the UMB 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 UMB Online Learning page.
About 57.7% of the students who received their Master’s in legal research in 2019-2020 were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 57.8%.
Of those graduates who received a master’s degree in legal research at UMB in 2019-2020, 51.9% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 1 |
| Black or African American | 20 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 5 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 13 |
| International Students | 9 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 4 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Advanced Legal Research/Studies | 52 |
*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.