Legal Professions at University of Wisconsin - Madison

Every legal professions school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the legal professions program at University of Wisconsin - Madison stacks up to those at other schools.

UW - Madison is located in Madison, Wisconsin and approximately 44,640 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.

UW - Madison Legal Professions Degrees Available

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

Online Classes Are Available at UW - Madison

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UW - Madison offers distance education options for legal professions at the following degree levels:

UW - Madison Legal Professions Rankings

There were 271 students who received their doctoral degrees in legal professions, making the school the #30 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at UW - Madison

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

UW - Madison Legal Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 30% of legal professions master's degrees went to men and 70% went to women.

In the legal professions master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 35% of degree recipients. That is 2% better than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	1
International Students	12
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 completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Wisconsin - Madison. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Law	268
Legal Research	25

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 WI, the home state for University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Occupation	Jobs in WI	Average Salary in WI
Lawyers	7,840	$130,450
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	4,320	$50,360
Legal Secretaries	1,480	$44,380
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	890	$48,730
Legal Support Workers	490	$52,630

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 Czar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.