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Legal Support Services at Center for Advanced Legal Studies

If you plan to study Legal Support Services, take a look at what Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Get started with the following essential facts.

Center for Advanced Legal Studies sits in Houston, TX.

For the most recent IPEDS reporting year, 207 legal support services degrees were granted at Center for Advanced Legal Studies.

Online & Distance Learning at Center for Advanced Legal Studies

Many students take online classes at Center for Advanced Legal Studies. Of 271 students, 270 (100%) were enrolled entirely in distance education and 1 (0%) took at least some classes online.

Legal Support Services Rankings at Center for Advanced Legal Studies

These rankings give you a sense of how Center for Advanced Legal Studies’s Legal Support Services program against other schools offering the same major.

Associate-Level Rankings

Ranking	Scope	Rank
Best Value	Texas	#20 of 22
Best Schools (Quality)	Texas	#21 of 22
Best Value	Southwest (Region)	#25 of 30
Best Schools (Quality)	Southwest (Region)	#27 of 30
Best Value	Nationwide	#182 of 236
Best Schools (Quality)	Nationwide	#225 of 234

Earnings for Legal Support Services Graduates from Center for Advanced Legal Studies

Students who complete Center for Advanced Legal Studies’s Legal Support Services program earn the following amounts (per the U.S. Department of Education’s College Scorecard):

Years After Graduation	Median Earnings
1 year	$35,965
2 years	$34,658
3 years	$33,799
4 years	$41,434
5 years	$44,852

Is this above or below average for the school? Four years after graduating, Legal Support Services graduates from Center for Advanced Legal Studies report median earnings of $41,434, compared with $41,902 for all Center for Advanced Legal Studies graduates — about 1% lower than the school-wide median.

Median Debt at Graduation

Typical debt at graduation for Legal Support Services graduates from Center for Advanced Legal Studies stands at $19,221.

Student Demographics & Diversity

Take a look at the diversity of Legal Support Services graduates at Center for Advanced Legal Studies, by degree type.

Program-wide, Legal Support Services graduates at Center for Advanced Legal Studies are 88% women (182) and 12% men (25).

Legal Support Services Associate’s Program at Center for Advanced Legal Studies

Among the 31 associate’s legal support services graduates at Center for Advanced Legal Studies, 90% were women (28) and 10% were men (3).

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity of Legal Support Services associate’s degree recipients at Center for Advanced Legal Studies.

Race / Ethnicity	Number of Graduates
White	11
Hispanic / Latino	9
Black / African American	11

Racial-ethnic minorities make up 65% of Legal Support Services associate’s degree recipients at Center for Advanced Legal Studies, higher than the national average of 48%.*

*The racial-ethnic minorities figure is the total number of graduates minus White, international (nonresident), and unknown-race graduates.

More Specific Legal Support Services Concentrations at Center for Advanced Legal Studies

The Legal Support Services program at Center for Advanced Legal Studies offers more specialized concentrations:

Concentration	Graduates
Legal Assistant/Paralegal	207

Highest-Paying Careers for Legal Support Services Graduates

Students who finish Legal Support Services program at Center for Advanced Legal Studies work across a variety of fields. Below are the best-paid careers for Legal Support Services graduates, ordered by median annual salary:

Occupation	Nationwide Median Wage
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	$134,350
Legal Support Workers, All Other	$80,735
Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners	$76,955
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	$67,272
Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants	$55,524
Interpreters and Translators	$52,627

References

• IPEDS — Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System
• U.S. Department of Education — College Scorecard
• O*NET Online (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
• National Center for Education Statistics

More about our data sources and methodologies.