Legal Professions at Dominican University

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

Dominican U is located in River Forest, Illinois and has a total student population of 3,189.

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.

Dominican U Legal Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at Dominican U

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Dominican U offers distance education options for legal professions at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Dominican U Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at Dominican U 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.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at Dominican U

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

Dominican U Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 29% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women.

About 57% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at Dominican U are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

Legal Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Dominican University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	7

Related Majors

Careers That Legal Professions Grads May Go Into

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 IL, the home state for Dominican University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Lawyers	31,260	$152,980
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	13,540	$57,180
Legal Secretaries	7,880	$51,140
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	1,070	$47,670

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By HalloweenHJB under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.