by our College Data Analytics TeamLegal Research is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Washington University in St Louis. 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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Part-time graduates at WUSTL paid an average of $2,346 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In State | Out of State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $56,300 | $56,300 |
| Fees | $262 | $262 |
The median early career salary of legal research students who receive their master’s degree from WUSTL is $47,231 per year. That is 31% lower than the national average of $68,119.
Online degrees for the WUSTL 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 WUSTL Online Learning page.
About 63.7% of the students who received their Master’s in legal research in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 57.8%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 27.5% of the legal research master’s degrees at WUSTL in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 17%.
| Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
|---|---|
| Asian | 10 |
| Black or African American | 53 |
| Hispanic or Latino | 14 |
| Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
| Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
| White | 59 |
| International Students | 158 |
| Other Races/Ethnicities | 11 |
Legal Research students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
| Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| General Advanced Legal Research/Studies | 229 |
| American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence | 58 |
| Tax Law/Taxation | 5 |
| Intellectual Property Law | 14 |
*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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