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Legal Professions at Rutgers University - Newark

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Legal Professions at Rutgers University - Newark

If you plan to study legal professions, take a look at what Rutgers University - Newark has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Rutgers Newark is located in Newark, New Jersey and approximately 13,231 students attend the school each year. Of the 2,346 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rutgers University - Newark in 2021, 3 of them were legal professions majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Legal Professions section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions
  • Doctorate Degree in Legal Professions

Each year, College Factual ranks legal professions programs across the country. The following shows how Rutgers Newark performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The legal professions major at Rutgers Newark is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Professions. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Focused Legal Professions Schools 126
Most Focused Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools 204

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal professions majors at Rutgers University - Newark.

100% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 3 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in legal professions from Rutgers Newark in 2021, 100% were men and 0% were women. The typical legal professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 39% men. So male students are more repesented at Rutgers Newark since its program graduates 61% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 67% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Rutgers University - Newark with a bachelor's in legal professions.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 0
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Rutgers Newark also has a doctoral program available in legal professions. In 2021, 234 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Legal Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Rutgers University - Newark. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Law 234
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 3

A degree in legal professions can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NJ, the home state for Rutgers University - Newark.

Occupation Jobs in NJ Average Salary in NJ
Lawyers 21,070 $139,020
Legal Secretaries 9,020 $50,660
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 8,120 $58,260
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,710 $56,870
Judges, and Magistrates 1,020 $126,760

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.

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