Legal Professions at Vanderbilt University

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

Vanderbilt is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 13,537 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.

Vanderbilt Legal Professions Degrees Available

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

Vanderbilt Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at Vanderbilt 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 192 students who received their doctoral degrees in legal professions, making the school the #73 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at Vanderbilt

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

Vanderbilt Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 64% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 36% 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 Vanderbilt since its program graduates 26% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 8% 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 Vanderbilt University with a bachelor's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	10
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Vanderbilt Legal Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 33% of legal professions master's degrees went to men and 67% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Vanderbilt University 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	42
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

If you plan to be a legal professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Vanderbilt University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Law	192
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	34
Legal Research	4

Related Majors

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 TN, the home state for Vanderbilt University.

Occupation	Jobs in TN	Average Salary in TN
Lawyers	7,600	$124,470
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	4,100	$49,050
Legal Secretaries	3,010	$43,480
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	1,150	$45,830
Legal Support Workers	500	$62,330

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 Dansan4444 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.