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Legal Studies at University of Maryland Global Campus

Legal Studies at University of Maryland Global Campus

If you are interested in studying legal studies, you may want to check out the program at University of Maryland Global Campus. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 students attend the school each year.

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Studies

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

UMGC does offer online education options in legal studies for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

The legal studies major at UMGC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Studies. 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.

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal studies majors at University of Maryland Global Campus.

69% Women
52% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 31% of legal studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women. The typical legal studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 29% men. So male students are more repesented at UMGC since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Global Campus with a bachelor's in legal studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 5
Black or African American 28
Hispanic or Latino 20
White 45
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 21

A degree in legal studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation Jobs in MD Average Salary in MD
Law Professors 160 $140,990

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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