Mitchell Hamline School of Law 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 Mitchell Hamline School of Law. Here, you’ll find out more about the major doctor’s degree program in law, including such details as the number of graduates, ethnicity of students, related majors and concentrations, and more.

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Graduate Cost
Online Learning
Student Diversity
Focus Areas
References

How Much Does a Doctorate in Law from Mitchell Hamline Cost?

$47,426 Average Tuition and Fees

Mitchell Hamline Graduate Tuition and Fees

In 2019-2020, the average part-time graduate tuition at Mitchell Hamline was $2,095 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The average full-time tuition and fees for graduate students are shown in the table below.

	In State	Out of State
Tuition	$46,550	$46,550
Fees	$876	$876

Does Mitchell Hamline Offer an Online Doctorate in Law?

Mitchell Hamline 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 Mitchell Hamline Online Learning page.

Mitchell Hamline Doctorate Student Diversity for Law

331 Doctor's Degrees Awarded

53.8% Women

25.1% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

During the 2019-2020 academic year, there were 331 doctor’s degrees in law handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Of the students who received their doctor’s degree in law in 2019-2020, 53.8% of them were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 52.6%.

Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 25.1% of law doctor’s degree recipients at Mitchell Hamline in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 30%.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	17
Black or African American	29
Hispanic or Latino	25
Native American or Alaska Native	5
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander	0
White	226
International Students	5
Other Races/Ethnicities	24

Doctorate in Law Focus Areas at Mitchell Hamline

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

Focus Area	Annual Graduates
Law	331

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.