by our College Data Analytics TeamLegal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at University of Missouri - Kansas City. 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, and more.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at UMKC paid an average of $1,050 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $407 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 | $9,761 | $25,202 |
| Fees | $1,497 | $1,497 |
UMKC does not offer an online option for its legal research master’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the UMKC Online Learning page.
About 56.3% 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%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 18.8% of the legal research master’s degrees at UMKC in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 17%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 0 |
| Black or African American | 2 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 6 |
| International Students | 7 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Advanced Legal Research/Studies | 13 |
| Tax Law/Taxation | 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.