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Legal Professions at Dickinson College

Legal Professions at Dickinson College

What traits are you looking for in a legal professions school? To help you decide if Dickinson College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's legal professions program.

Dickinson is located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,932 students attend the school each year.

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

The legal professions major at Dickinson 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.

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

57% Women
14% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 43% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% went to women. The typical legal professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at Dickinson since its program graduates 5% more men than average.

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About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at Dickinson 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 Dickinson College 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 2
White 11
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Legal Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Dickinson College. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 13

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 PA, the home state for Dickinson College.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Lawyers 24,980 $138,610
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 12,440 $52,780
Legal Secretaries 7,420 $50,980
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 2,050 $46,170
Judicial Law Clerks 1,070 $40,550

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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