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University of Southern California Doctorate in Legal Professions

Legal Professions is a program of study at University of Southern California. The school offers a doctor’s degree in the area. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the doctor’s degree program in legal professions, such as if the program is offered online, ethnicity 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 Legal Professions from USC Cost?

USC Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at USC was $1,995 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	$47,880	$47,880
Fees	$835	$835

Does USC Offer an Online Doctorate in Legal Professions?

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

USC Doctorate Student Diversity for Legal Professions

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 189 doctor’s degrees in legal professions handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 47.1% of the legal professions students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 52.5%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 38.6% of the legal professions doctor’s degrees at USC in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	39
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	17
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	106
International Students	7
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Doctorate in Legal Professions Focus Areas at USC

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	189

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.