Villanova University 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 Villanova University. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the doctor’s degree program in law, such as diversity 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 Law from Villanova Cost?

$20,719 Average Tuition and Fees

Villanova Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Villanova was $1,085 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	$20,619	$20,619
Fees	$100	$100

Does Villanova Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

Villanova 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 Villanova Online Learning page.

Villanova Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

169 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

56.2% Women

21.3% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 169 doctor’s degrees in law handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

About 56.2% of the students who received their Doctorate in law in 2019-2020 were women. 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 Villanova in 2019-2020, 21.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	9
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	12
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	129
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	11

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at Villanova

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	169

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.