New York Law School Doctorate in Legal Professions

320 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

Legal Professions is a program of study at New York Law School. 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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How Much Does a Doctorate in Legal Professions from New York Law School Cost?

$24,000 Average Tuition and Fees

New York Law School Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at New York Law School was $1,500 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	$24,000	$24,000

Does New York Law School Offer an Online Doctorate in Legal Professions?

New York Law School 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 New York Law School Online Learning page.

New York Law School Doctorate Student Diversity for Legal Professions

320 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

58.1% Women

30.6% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 320 doctor’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

About 58.1% of the students who received their Doctorate in legal professions in 2019-2020 were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 52.5%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 30.6% of the legal professions doctor’s degrees at New York Law School in 2019-2020. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	27
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	47
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	1
White	201
International Students	8
Other Races/Ethnicities	19

Doctorate in Legal Professions Focus Areas at New York Law School

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	320

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.