Northern Kentucky 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 Northern Kentucky 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 NKU Cost?

$11,418 Average Tuition and Fees

NKU Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at NKU was $943 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $613 per credit hour. Information about average full-time graduate student tuition and fees is shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$11,034	$16,974
Fees	$384	$384

Does NKU Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

NKU 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 NKU Online Learning page.

NKU Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

115 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

57.4% Women

12.2% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

There were 115 doctor’s degrees in law awarded during the 2019-2020 academic year. Information about those students is shown below.

Male-to-Female Ratio

About 57.4% 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

Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 12.2% of the law doctor’s degrees at NKU in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	6
Hispanic or Latino	7
Native American or Alaska Native	0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	97
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at NKU

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	115

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.