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Legal Support Services at Florida Gulf Coast University

Legal Support Services at Florida Gulf Coast University

If you are interested in studying legal support services, you may want to check out the program at Florida Gulf Coast University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

FGCU is located in Fort Myers, Florida and has a total student population of 15,358.

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Support

The legal support major at FGCU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Support Services. 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 support majors at Florida Gulf Coast University.

75% Women
42% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 25% of legal support bachelor's degrees went to men and 75% went to women. The typical legal support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at FGCU since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

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About 55% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal support at FGCU 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 Florida Gulf Coast University with a bachelor's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 8
Hispanic or Latino 18
White 38
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

If you plan to be a legal support 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 Florida Gulf Coast University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Assistant/Paralegal 53

A degree in legal support can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for FL, the home state for Florida Gulf Coast University.

Occupation Jobs in FL Average Salary in FL
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 30,230 $50,120
Legal Secretaries 9,460 $45,550
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 4,800 $50,350
Legal Support Workers 1,750 $65,520
Court Reporters 1,340 $47,950

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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