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 - provides information about student enrollment disaggregated by gender and ethnicity, offering insight into the demographic diversity within the program.
Student Completion - provides information about retention and graduation rates calculated through the 2021–2022 academic year, based on cohorts of new, first-time students entering the program in the fall semester, regardless of enrollment in the daytime or evening instructional delivery (if applicable). These calculations exclude incoming transfer students. Specifically, retention rates are reported at one-year and two-year intervals.
In addition, graduation rates are calculated according to each program’s duration length (100%) and within 150% of the normal time for a bachelor’s degree. Gender-based graduation data reflects only the distribution of actual graduates within each cohort and does not consider the original gender composition of the entering group.
Scholarship Information - provides information about student financial support, with data disaggregated by the type of scholarship awarded.
Geographic Data - provides information about the geographic composition of students enrolled in the program, based on place of origin.
Additional Demographic Data - provides information about students’ marital status, disability status, and first-generation college attendance.
All programs utilize the Brightspace platform to collect and assess student work and to compile data and evidence of student achievement. The resulting outcomes and their analysis, which focus on identifying areas for improvement, are presented in the program’s assessment report. In the graphic below, the most recent assessment period for each Program Learning Outcome (PLO) is indicated, along with the percentage representing the level of achievement of the expected performance standard for that PLO, based on the rubric used to evaluate student work.
Note: Multiple descriptions per PLO code reflect updates over time. All versions are shown to support historical and comparative analysis.