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University of Southern California Master’s in Legal Research

521 Master's Degrees Awarded
$47,327 Average Salary

Legal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at University of Southern California. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in legal research, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.

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$48,715 Average Tuition and Fees

USC Graduate Tuition and Fees

During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time graduate students at USC paid an average of $0 per credit hour. No discount was available for in-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

In State Out of State
Tuition $47,880 $47,880
Fees $835 $835

$47,327 Average Salary
Below Average Earnings Boost

legal research who receive their master’s degree from USC make an average of $47,327 a year during the early days of their career. That is 31% lower than the national average of $68,119.

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Online degrees for the USC 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 USC Online Learning page.

521 Master's Degrees Awarded
65.1% Women
4.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 521 master’s degrees in legal research handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 65.1% of the legal research students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 57.8%.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 4.6% of the legal research master’s degrees at USC in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 17%.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 9
Black or African American 6
Hispanic or Latino 8
Native American or Alaska Native 0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 1
White 6
International Students 386
Other Races/Ethnicities 105

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

Focus Area Annual Graduates
General Advanced Legal Research/Studies 91
Programs for Foreign Lawyers 398
Comparative Law 1
International Business, Trade, & Tax Law 31

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.

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