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Legal Professions at Belmont University

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Legal Professions at Belmont University

If you plan to study legal professions, take a look at what Belmont University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Belmont is located in Nashville, Tennessee and approximately 8,204 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 6 legal professions majors received their bachelor's degree from Belmont.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Legal Professions section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions
  • Doctorate Degree in Legal Professions

The following rankings from College Factual show how the legal professions progam at Belmont compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The legal professions major at Belmont is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Professions. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Focused Legal Professions Bachelor’s Degree Schools 173

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal professions majors at Belmont University.

100% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 0% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at Belmont are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Belmont University with a bachelor's in legal professions.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 4
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Belmont also has a doctoral program available in legal professions. In 2021, 93 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

If you plan to be a legal professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Belmont University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Law 93
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 6

A degree in legal professions can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for TN, the home state for Belmont University.

Occupation Jobs in TN Average Salary in TN
Lawyers 7,600 $124,470
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 4,100 $49,050
Legal Secretaries 3,010 $43,480
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,150 $45,830
Legal Support Workers 500 $62,330

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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