Juris Master in American Legal Studies Online Degree

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Next Start Dates: January 19, 2026 | February 16, 2026 | March 23, 2026

Increase Your Knowledge of Law and Your Value in the Workforce

Are you in a job in which you regularly interact with lawyers? Perhaps you are involved in human resources or some other area of business in which you need to understand the laws that govern contracts. If you need a deeper understanding of the law but you don’t need to be a practicing attorney, then consider Liberty University’s law school 100% online Juris Master (JM) in American Legal Studies. This master of legal studies degree gives the flexibility you need to juggle life and school while still receiving a quality education.

The goal of our Juris Master in American Legal Studies is to build upon your current knowledge and skills in American law. There is a growing need for professionals familiar with the intricacies of American law. Due to America’s legal influence on institutions around the world, a master’s degree in legal studies will provide you with the ability to meet this need.

By studying the American legal system through our online Juris Master degree, you can learn the fundamental principles of constitutional law and gain a greater understanding of our system of government and the effect it has on global enterprises and institutions around the world. This Juris Master degree program can prepare you for a wide variety of professions that interact with the law.

Your officially conferred degree name will be Juris Master (JM) in American Legal Studies.

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Why Choose Liberty’s Juris Master Degree in American Legal Studies Online?

Liberty University’s professors in the School of Law are legal professionals with years of hands-on experience. Each professor will provide you with fresh insights and helpful tools to better understand advanced legal theory and practice. This online law degree can help equip you with knowledge of fundamental legal principles so you can tackle legal challenges in many industries and professional fields.

Liberty’s JM in American Legal Studies primarily focuses on equipping business professionals, church leaders, journalists, politicians, and missionaries who need to study law but do not need a Juris Doctor (JD) to practice law. If you need advanced legal expertise in American law and policy for your career, Liberty’s online Juris Master in American Legal Studies can help give you the training you need!

What Will You Study in Our Juris Master’s Degree in American Legal Studies?

As one of the largest private, nonprofit universities in the nation and the largest university in Virginia, we are always looking for new and exciting ways to take your educational experience to the next level. One of the most fundamental skills you can learn during your Juris Master degree in American Legal Studies is how to perform effective legal writing and analysis.

Without the ability to develop research methods, strategies, and statistical analysis, it is impossible to produce top-notch reports and data compilations that are used in formal legal analysis and communication. Students will explore torts and property law from a Judeo-Christian, ethical worldview. Each of these segments of law comes with its own multi-dimensional issues and particulars, which you can come to master upon completion of your online legal studies degree.

Because this Juris Master degree online is for a wide variety of working professionals, there is a wide range of legal topics that need to be covered. You may do anything from giving legal advice to your company to helping law enforcement gain a conviction. Study the basis of contracts and the principles that control the formation, modification, and enforceability of them is a vital area of study. A thorough grounding in criminal law concepts and principles is also essential to your legal education.

Our Juris Master in American Legal Studies professors can teach you not only the fundamentals of constitutional law but also jurisprudence and legal history. Acquiring this knowledge in our legal studies major helps provide a platform on which to build your newly found skills in legal communication, various forms of law, and its relation to economic factors. Each course is meant to give you the theoretical and practical knowledge that you can take with you in your career.

After completion of your Juris Master degree in American legal studies, you will have the opportunity to enter the workforce in a variety of career fields. Understanding American law is a necessity for those who wish to serve in a government leadership position, for example. America’s legal system is complex and in need of critical care from leaders with strong moral values. We need passionate Christians who have a heart for America and are seeking to secure the future for upcoming generations.

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At Liberty University, a private Christian education is less expensive than you think. Over the last 10 years, Liberty University’s Online Program has only raised its standard tuition costs by less than 5% – and most of our online tuition rates rank in the top 35% for affordability for 2025 when compared to our leading online competitors.

Graduate Full Time	$580/Credit
Graduate Part Time	$645/Credit
Military Graduate	$290/Credit

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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Apply online or over the phone with an admissions counselor by calling (800) 424-9596.
- A non-refundable, non-transferable $50 application fee will be posted on the current application upon enrollment (waived for qualifying service members, veterans, and military spouses – documentation verifying military status is required).
Send official college transcripts (mailed as sealed, unopened copies or sent via a direct electronic transcript system). A regionally or nationally accredited bachelor’s degree with at least a 3.0 GPA is required for admission in good standing. Applicants who have earned a master’s degree or at least 12 graduate credits from an accredited institution will be assessed on the basis of the master’s-level degree work.
- Unofficial transcripts can be used for acceptance purposes with the submission of a Transcript Request Form.
Applicants whose native language is other than English must submit official scores for the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) or an approved alternative assessment. For information on alternative assessments or TOEFL waivers, please call Admissions or view the official International Admissions policy.

Preliminary Acceptance

If you are sending in a preliminary transcript for acceptance, you must:

Be in your final term and planning to start your master’s degree after the last day of class for your bachelor’s degree.
Complete a Bachelor’s Self-Certification Form confirming your completion date. You may download the form from the Forms and Downloads page or contact an admissions counselor to submit the form on your behalf.
Submit an official/unofficial transcript to confirm that you are in your final term. The preliminary transcript must show a minimum of 105 completed credit hours.
If you are a current Liberty University student completing your undergraduate degree, you will need to submit a Degree/Certificate Completion Application.
Send in an additional, final official transcript with a conferral date on it by the end of your first semester of enrollment in the new master’s degree.

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Unofficial College Transcript Policy

Unofficial transcripts combined with a Transcript Request Form can be used for admission. Official transcripts are required within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first, and will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

Before sending unofficial college transcripts, please make sure they include the following:

Your previous school’s name or logo printed on the document
Cumulative GPA
A list of completed courses and earned credit broken down by semester
Degree and date conferred (if applicable)

Official College Transcript Policy

An acceptable official college transcript is one that has been issued directly from the institution and is in a sealed envelope. If you have one in your possession, it must meet the same requirements. If your previous institution offers electronic official transcript processing, they can send the document directly to luoverify@liberty.edu.

If the student uses unofficial transcripts with a Transcript Request Form to gain acceptance, all official transcripts must be received within 60 days of the admissions decision or before non-attendance drops for the first set of matriculated classes, whichever comes first. Failure to send all official transcripts within the 60-day period will prevent enrollment into future terms until all official transcripts have been received.

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8-week courses, 8 different start dates each year, and no set login times (may exclude certain courses such as practicums, internships, or field experiences)

*Not applicable to certificates.

These rates are reflective of academic year 2025-2026. Tuition rates may change annually. For the most current information, please visit our LU Tuition Cost page.

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