Pre-Law and Legal Studies
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Early Career Income
$70,978
Lifetime Income
$3.38M
Unemployment rate
3.9%
Female share
67.3%
Occupation concentration
48.5%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
28.5%
% who double-major
30.5%
BA Graduates from 2024
4,781
+1.1% vs 2023
How Pre-Law and Legal Studies compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
37th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 37% of majors
17th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 17% of majors
60th
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 60% of majors
Top occupations
- Lawyers, and judges, magistrates, and other judicial workers
- Paralegals and Legal Assistants
- Miscellaneous managers, including funeral service managers and postmasters and mail superintendents
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Pre-Law and Legal Studies.
- Legal Studies
- Pre-Law Studies
- Non-Professional Legal Studies, Other
- Advanced Legal Research/Studies, General
- American/U.S. Law/Legal Studies/Jurisprudence
- Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources Law
- International Law and Legal Studies
- International Business, Trade, and Tax Law
- Patent Law
- Agriculture Law
- Arts and Entertainment Law
- Compliance Law
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- Criminal Law and Procedure
- Entrepreneurship Law
- Family/Child/Elder Law
- Human Resources Law
- Insurance Law
- Real Estate and Land Development Law
- Transportation Law
- Tribal/Indigenous Law
- Legal Research and Advanced Professional Studies, Other
- Legal Assistant/Paralegal
- Legal Support Services, Other
- Legal Professions and Studies, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology