George Washington University Doctorate in Legal Professions

429 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

Legal Professions is a program of study at George Washington University. 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 GWU Cost?

$31,824 Average Tuition and Fees

GWU Graduate Tuition and Fees

Part-time graduates at GWU paid an average of $1,765 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	$31,770	$31,770
Fees	$54	$54

Does GWU Offer an Online Doctorate in Legal Professions?

GWU 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 GWU Online Learning page.

GWU Doctorate Student Diversity for Legal Professions

429 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

54.1% Women

27.3% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

There were 429 doctor’s degrees in legal professions awarded during the 2019-2020 academic year. Information about those students is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 54.1% of the legal professions students who took home a doctor’s degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 52.5%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 27.3% of the legal professions doctor’s degrees at GWU in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	58
Black or African American	47
Hispanic or Latino	4
Native American or Alaska Native	5
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	1
White	241
International Students	28
Other Races/Ethnicities	45

Doctorate in Legal Professions Focus Areas at GWU

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	427
Legal Research	2

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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