Students coming from abroad to earn an LL.M. at an American university cannot take out loans in this country for their education, law school officials say. They use their own funds or may receive grants from their employers at home or their governments. American law schools generally charge the same tuition for all foreign LL.M. candidates as they do for their own students. But they often give tuition discounts or scholarships to outstanding applicants.
American students abroad for a semester or a joint degree – either a dual J.D. or a J.D. plus LL.M. — pay their full tuition to their home law school and are billed as if they were attending in the United States.