Fall 2025 Graduate Class Profile and Statistics

All statistics are as of August 26, 2025, the first day of fall semester classes.

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Our Community

NYU Law is an intellectual powerhouse, with close to 100 faculty, over 300 courses, 30+ research centers and 80+ student groups. At the Law School, you will find a global community of remarkable diversity. Smart, accomplished lawyers arrive annually for the Master of Laws and other graduate law programs not only to succeed academically, but also contribute in meaningful ways to the daily life of our innovative institution.

Full-time LLM Program

465 new students across nine programs

  • 81.94% earned their first law degree abroad:
    • 53 countries
    • 191 foreign schools
  • 57 US law schools
  • Years out from earning the credential establishing eligibility (e.g. first law degree):
    • 55.05% up to two
    • 25.81% two to five
    • 18.92% five to ten
    • 0.22% ten or more  

Heard around Campus

Our LLM students speak:

Arabic, Azeri, Bengali, Byelorussian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, Ganda, Georgian, German, Greek, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Kikuyu, Korean, Malayalam, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovene, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, and Uzbek.

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Part-time Programs

47 new students in the LLM, Executive LLM, MSL and APC programs

  • 91.49% US-educated
  • 27 US universities or law schools
  • 95.74% pursuing one of our tax programs
  • Years out from earning the credential establishing eligibility (e.g. law or bachelor's degree):
    • 44.68% up to two
    • 23.4% two to five
    • 29.79% five to ten
    • 2.13% ten or more

JSD Program

3 new students and 13 students in their second through fifth years

They earned their first law degrees in: Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, Hong Kong, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and the USA

Meet Our Current JSDs