Legal Professions at University of Kansas

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

KU is located in Lawrence, Kansas and approximately 26,744 students attend the school each year.

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.

KU Legal Professions Degrees Available

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

KU Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at KU 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.

There were 102 students who received their doctoral degrees in legal professions, making the school the #161 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at KU

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

KU Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 43% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% went to women. The typical legal professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at KU since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% 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 University of Kansas with a bachelor's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

KU Legal Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of legal professions master's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Kansas with a master's in legal professions.

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

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

The following legal professions concentations are available at University of Kansas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Kansas. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Law	98
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	15
Legal Research	6

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Careers That Legal Professions Grads May Go Into

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 KS, the home state for University of Kansas.

Occupation	Jobs in KS	Average Salary in KS
Lawyers	3,460	$109,020
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	2,240	$43,790
Legal Secretaries	1,150	$39,100
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	530	$43,550
Legal Support Workers	410	$51,540

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By Arnhem under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.