Harvard University Master’s in Legal Professions

183 Master's Degrees Awarded

Legal Professions is a program of study at Harvard University. The school offers a master’s degree in the area. Here, you’ll find out more about the major master’s degree program in legal professions, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.

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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Master’s in Legal Professions from Harvard Cost?

$50,654 Average Tuition and Fees

Harvard Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Harvard was $1,545 per credit hour 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	$49,448	$49,448
Fees	$1,206	$1,206

Does Harvard Offer an Online Master’s in Legal Professions?

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

Harvard Master’s Student Diversity for Legal Professions

183 Master's Degrees Awarded

50.8% Women

3.3% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 183 master’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 50.8% of the legal professions students who took home a master’s degree in 2019-2020. This is less than the nationwide number of 59.2%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 3.3% of legal professions master’s degree recipients at Harvard in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 20%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	0
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	7
International Students	167
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Master’s in Legal Professions Focus Areas at Harvard

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	5
Legal Research	178

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.