Programs for Foreign Lawyers
Add ComparisonIn 2021, the locations with the highest concentration of Programs for Foreign Lawyers degree recipients are Berkeley, CA, San Diego, CA, and Los Angeles, CA. In 2021, the locations with a relatively high number of Programs for Foreign Lawyers degree recipients are Berkeley, CA, University Park, TX, and Evanston, IL. The most common degree awarded to students studying Programs for Foreign Lawyers is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Programs for Foreign Lawyers and the types of students that study this field. University of California-Berkeley awards the most degrees in Programs for Foreign Lawyers in the US, but California Western School of Law and Brooklyn Law School have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers.
Tuition costs for Programs for Foreign Lawyers majors are, on average, $10,440 for in-state public colleges, and $48,328 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Programs for Foreign Lawyers programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (32 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (461 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (461 completions in 2021).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Programs for Foreign Lawyers programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
University of California-Berkeley has the most Programs for Foreign Lawyers degree recipients, with 119 degrees awarded in 2021.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers.
Out of all institutions that offer Programs for Foreign Lawyers programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, California Western School of Law has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers, with 33.2%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Programs for Foreign Lawyers.
Information on the businesses and industries that employ Legal graduates and on wages and locations for those in the field.
The average salary for Legal majors is $79,717 and the most common occupations are Paralegals & legal assistants, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Other managers.
The industry that employs the most Legal majors is Legal services, though the highest paying industry, by average wage, is Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers .
The average salary for Legal majors is $79,717 and the most common occupations are Paralegals & legal assistants, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Other managers.
This chart shows the average annual salaries of the most common occupations for Legal majors.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States colored by the average salary of Legal majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Legal majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
The most common occupations Legal majors, by number of employees, are Paralegals & legal assistants, Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers, and Other managers.
Compared to other majors, there are an unusually high number of Legal majors working as Paralegals & legal assistants, Judicial law clerks, and Lawyers, & judges, magistrates, & other judicial workers.
The highest paid occupations by median income for Legal majors are Chief executives & legislators, Sales representatives of services, except advertising, insurance, financial services, and travel, and Physicians.
The number of Legal graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.42%, from 91,313 in 2020 to 93,523 in 2021.
The largest single share of Legal graduates go on to work as Paralegals & legal assistants (15.2%). This chart shows the various jobs filled by those with a major in Legal by share of the total number of graduates.
The most common industries that employ Legal majors, by number of employees, are Legal services, Justice, public order, & safety activities , and Elementary & secondary schools.
The highest paying industries of Legal majors, by average wage, are Drugs, sundries, & chemical & allied products merchant wholesalers , Spectator sports, and Electronics stores.
The number of Legal graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 2.42%, from 91,313 in 2020 to 93,523 in 2021.
The industry which employs the most Legal graduates by share is Legal services, followed by Justice, public order, & safety activities . This visualization shows the industries that hire those who major in Legal.
This map shows the public use micro areas (PUMAs) in the United States where there are a relatively high population of Legal majors.
Note that the census collects information tied to where people live, not where they work. It is possible that Legal majors live and work in the same place, but it is also possible that they live and work in two different places.
This chart shows distribution of ages for employees with a degree in Legal. The most common ages of employees with this major are 46 and 39 years old, which represent 3.5% and 3.36% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Programs for Foreign Lawyers are Masters Degree, Postbaccalaureate Certificate, and Post-Masters Certificate.
The most common degree types held by the working population in Legal are Bachelors Degree, Professional degree, and Masters Degree.
This chart shows the granted degrees by sex at the 5 institutions that graduate the most students in Programs for Foreign Lawyers.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Programs for Foreign Lawyers for each race & ethnicity. Non-resident Alien students earned the largest share of the degrees with this major.
This chart illustrates the differences by sex for each race & ethnicity of Masters Degree recipients in Programs for Foreign Lawyers.
Non-resident Alien Female students, who earn most of the degrees in this field, are the most common combination of race/ethnicity and sex.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Bosnia and Herzegovina that hold Legal degrees (4.68 times more than expected), and the most common country of origin by total numbers for non-US students earning a degree in this field is Mexico (809 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Programs for Foreign Lawyers field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Programs for Foreign Lawyers majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Programs for Foreign Lawyers majors need more than the average amount of Negotiation, Persuasion, Speaking, Active Listening, Time Management, Writing, Judgment and Decision Making, Critical Thinking, Complex Problem Solving, Reading Comprehension, Social Perceptiveness, Service Orientation, Active Learning, Systems Analysis, Operations Analysis, Monitoring, Coordination, Management of Financial Resources, Systems Evaluation, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Technology Design, Management of Material Resources, Mathematics, Programming, Science, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Quality Control Analysis, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for Programs for Foreign Lawyers majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Negotiation is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Active Listening, Reading Comprehension, Critical Thinking, Writing, Persuasion, Judgment and Decision Making, Negotiation, Active Learning, Complex Problem Solving, Time Management, Social Perceptiveness, Monitoring, Systems Analysis, Service Orientation, Coordination, Systems Evaluation, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Management of Personnel Resources, Operations Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Mathematics, Management of Material Resources, Technology Design, Science, Programming, Operation Monitoring, Operation and Control, Quality Control Analysis, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
