Graduates of the Law program at Universidad de Las Américas are skilled professionals with a well-rounded academic foundation, based on strong ethical principles and solid theoretical-legal knowledge. Similarly, graduates exhibit a comprehensive understanding of multidisciplinary and innovative legal topics, along with the capacity to analyze, apply, and interpret global and international legal developments with strong legal reasoning. These skills enable graduates to interact with contemporary society in ways that demonstrate social and environmental responsibility. In professional practice, graduates acquire essential tools for work in litigation, legal counseling, and public service.
Furthermore, graduates integrate and apply both theoretical and practical knowledge from key areas of the legal discipline. Graduates use suitable resources, methodologies, and instruments to process legal information and analyze legal phenomena and issues. Also conducts legal research through the analysis of statutory, jurisprudential, doctrinal, and case-based sources. Graduates demonstrate proficiency in legal reasoning and develop the skills required for effective litigation, private and corporate legal advising, and public sector service. Furthermore, graduates formulate legal and public policy proposals to address contemporary national, regional, and global issues from a pluralistic and interdisciplinary perspective. Graduates deliver preventive legal counsel and propose ethical, legally sound solutions that advance the interests of clients and represented institutions.
Finally, graduates are expected to pursue ongoing professional development, uphold high ethical standards in their personal and professional conduct, and actively promote the protection of fundamental rights, respect for diversity, and intercultural understanding.
Demographic Data: Program headcount totals the number of students enrolled yearly and a breakdown by men and women. Enrollment by ethnicity presents data on the most representative ethnic groups of the program.
Student Completion:
Retention and graduation rates are calculated through the 2020-2021 academic year, based on new, first-time students entering in the fall semester, regardless of whether they enroll in the daytime or evening version of their program (if available). These rates do not consider incoming transfer students. Retention rates are calculated in 1 and 2 years.
Graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. The percentage of graduates in each cohort by gender considers only actual graduates, not the original makeup of the cohort.
Scholarship information: Information is divided by the type of scholarship granted.
Geographic Data: Presents the composition of the students of the program.
Add'l. Demogr. Data: Includes information on marital status, disability, and first-generation students.
In every semester, the program provides assessment results according to its Multiannual Assessment Plan (MAP), which typically considers one or more of its program learning outcomes (PLOs). Most programs utilize the platform Brightspace to collect and assess student work and to present the data and evidence of student achievement. These results and their analysis, with the objective of identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s annual assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent period in which a PLO has been assessed is indicated, with the percentage indicating achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, according to the rubric used to evaluate the student work. This standard can be designated at an introductory, intermediate, or final level, depending upon how the course learning outcomes (CLOs) align to each PLO in the program’s curriculum map.