Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law
Add ComparisonIn 2022, the locations with the highest concentration of Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law degree recipients are New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and Los Angeles, CA. In 2022, the locations with a relatively high number of Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law degree recipients are Chester, PA, Homewood, AL, and Lansing, MI. The most common degree awarded to students studying Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law is a masters degree.
Information about the types of higher education institutions that grant degrees in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law and the types of students that study this field. New York University awards the most degrees in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law in the US, but National Paralegal College and Widener University have the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law.
Tuition costs for Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law majors are, on average, $10,735 for in-state public colleges, and $55,384 for out of state private colleges.
The most common sector, by number of institutions, that offers Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law programs are Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above institutions (19 total). The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (381 completions).
The most common sector, by number of degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law, is Private not-for-profit, 4-year or above (381 completions in 2022).
The following chart shows the share of universities that offer Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law programs, by the total number of completions, colored and grouped by their sector.
New York University has the most Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law degree recipients, with 116 degrees awarded in 2022.
The following bar chart shows the state tuition for the top 5 institutions with the most degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law.
Out of all institutions that offer Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law programs and have at least 5 graduates in those programs, National Paralegal College has the highest percentage of degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law, with 4.85%.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest number of degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law by year.
This map shows the counties in the United States colored by the highest growth in degrees awarded for Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law.
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 $86,930 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 Electronics stores.
The average salary for Legal majors is $86,930 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 Securities, commodities, & financial services sales agents, Chief executives & legislators, and Aircraft pilots & flight engineers.
The number of Legal graduates in the workforce has been declining at a rate of 0.229%, from 94,055 in 2021 to 93,840 in 2022.
The largest single share of Legal graduates go on to work as Paralegals & legal assistants (14.9%). 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 Electronics stores, Spectator sports, and Air transportation.
The number of Legal graduates in the workforce has been growing at a rate of 0.229%, from 94,055 in 2021 to 93,840 in 2022.
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 48 and 39 years old, which represent 3.53% and 3.36% of the population, respectively.
The most common degree types awarded to students graduating in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law are Masters Degree, Post-Masters Certificate, and Postbaccalaureate 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 Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law.
This chart shows the number of degrees awarded in Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law 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 Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law.
There are a relatively high number of people that were born in Bulgaria that hold Legal degrees (5.57 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 Philippines (756 degree recipients).
Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law majors need many skills, but most especially Speaking. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law majors need more than the average amount of Persuasion, Critical Thinking, Active Learning, Learning Strategies, Speaking, Active Listening, Systems Evaluation, Judgment and Decision Making, Reading Comprehension, Negotiation, Writing, Instructing, Systems Analysis, Technology Design, Complex Problem Solving, Programming, Management of Personnel Resources, Service Orientation, Monitoring, Coordination, Social Perceptiveness, Time Management, Mathematics, Operations Analysis, Operation Monitoring, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Science, Management of Financial Resources, Equipment Selection, Installation, Operation and Control, 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 Banking, Corporate, Finance, & Securities Law 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 Persuasion is very distinctive for majors, but the Speaking, Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Writing, Critical Thinking, Learning Strategies, Active Learning, Instructing, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Monitoring, Persuasion, Systems Evaluation, Social Perceptiveness, Systems Analysis, Coordination, Negotiation, Time Management, Service Orientation, Management of Personnel Resources, Mathematics, Operations Analysis, Technology Design, Programming, Science, Management of Material Resources, Operation Monitoring, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Equipment Selection, Installation, Operation and Control, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.
