4-year earnings Median earnings for a program cohort four years after completion.
$99,556
Program median
Program + credential
Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies.: Doctoral Degree
Credential-level program pages keep field-of-study metrics separate from institution-wide outcomes.
Source: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard Data status: March 23, 2026 Missing and suppressed values are not zero.
Available program metrics
5-year earnings Median earnings for a program cohort five years after completion.
$94,731
Program median
Median debt Median program debt for a defined completion cohort.
$23,261
At evaluated institution
Cohort count Count context for the program outcome metrics.
1,762
Students in outcome cohort
| School | Type | Institution net price | Institution grad rate | Program data status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| American University Washington, DC | Private nonprofit | $41,943 | 75.5% | Available |
| Arizona State University Campus Immersion Tempe, AZ | Public | $14,967 | 68% | Available |
| Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, OH | Private nonprofit | $41,190 | 87.2% | Available |
| Columbia University in the City of New York New York, NY | Private nonprofit | $21,590 | 96.1% | Available |
| Cornell University Ithaca, NY | Private nonprofit | $28,690 | 95.4% | Available |
| Drexel University Philadelphia, PA | Private nonprofit | $38,509 | 78.2% | Available |
| Emory University Atlanta, GA | Private nonprofit | $22,585 | 91.1% | Available |
| George Washington University Washington, DC | Private nonprofit | $36,586 | 84% | Available |
| Georgetown University Washington, DC | Private nonprofit | $40,815 | 94.8% | Available |
| Golden Gate University San Francisco, CA | Private nonprofit | Not available | Not available | Available |
| Harvard University Cambridge, MA | Private nonprofit | $19,066 | 97.6% | Available |
| Indiana University-Bloomington Bloomington, IN | Public | $16,264 | 80.2% | Available |
| Indiana University-Indianapolis Indianapolis, IN | Public | $11,668 | 54.5% | Available |
| Loyola Marymount University Los Angeles, CA | Private nonprofit | $48,381 | 78.9% | Available |
| Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL | Private nonprofit | $36,079 | 73% | Available |
| Northwestern University Evanston, IL | Private nonprofit | $29,167 | 95.1% | Available |
| Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus University Park, PA | Public | $32,875 | 86.1% | Available |
| Southern Methodist University Dallas, TX | Private nonprofit | $40,892 | 84.3% | Available |
| St. Thomas University Miami Gardens, FL | Private nonprofit | $26,312 | 48.1% | Available |
| Stanford University Stanford, CA | Private nonprofit | $13,807 | 91.9% | Available |
| Suffolk University Boston, MA | Private nonprofit | $29,618 | 60.9% | Available |
| The University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, AL | Public | $22,420 | 73.4% | Available |
| Tulane University of Louisiana New Orleans, LA | Private nonprofit | $39,949 | 86.1% | Available |
| University of Arizona Tucson, AZ | Public | $16,674 | 67.5% | Available |
| University of California-Berkeley Berkeley, CA | Public | $13,481 | 92.8% | Available |
| University of California-Los Angeles Los Angeles, CA | Public | $12,548 | 92.6% | Available |
| University of Chicago Chicago, IL | Private nonprofit | $14,860 | 95.9% | Available |
| University of Connecticut Storrs, CT | Public | $25,097 | 83.3% | Available |
| University of Connecticut-Avery Point Groton, CT | Public | $13,807 | 61.6% | Available |
| University of Connecticut-Hartford Campus Hartford, CT | Public | $16,403 | 65.1% | Available |
| University of Connecticut-Stamford Stamford, CT | Public | $16,798 | 56.5% | Available |
| University of Connecticut-Waterbury Campus Waterbury, CT | Public | $10,875 | 52.7% | Available |
| University of Florida Gainesville, FL | Public | $6,541 | 91.1% | Available |
| University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Champaign, IL | Public | $14,355 | 85.1% | Available |
| University of Iowa Iowa City, IA | Public | $22,531 | 74.6% | Available |
| University of Kansas Lawrence, KS | Public | $18,059 | 68.8% | Available |
| University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Ann Arbor, MI | Public | $13,138 | 93.2% | Available |
| University of Nevada-Las Vegas Las Vegas, NV | Public | $10,359 | 50.5% | Available |
| University of Notre Dame Notre Dame, IN | Private nonprofit | $26,780 | 95.2% | Available |
| University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA | Private nonprofit | $28,699 | 96.5% | Available |
| University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Pittsburgh, PA | Public | $30,434 | 85.5% | Available |
| University of Virginia-Main Campus Charlottesville, VA | Public | $21,565 | 95.6% | Available |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison Madison, WI | Public | $17,354 | 89.6% | Available |
| Wake Forest University Winston-Salem, NC | Private nonprofit | $28,719 | 89.2% | Available |
| Washington University in St Louis St. Louis, MO | Private nonprofit | $21,786 | 94.3% | Available |
| Western New England University Springfield, MA | Private nonprofit | $27,290 | 64% | Available |
| Widener University Chester, PA | Private nonprofit | $25,759 | 68.3% | Available |
| Yale University New Haven, CT | Private nonprofit | $23,777 | 95.7% | Available |