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Legal Support Services at Florida Gulf Coast University

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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. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 53 students received a bachelor's degree in legal support from FGCU.

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

Each year, College Factual ranks legal support programs across the country. The following shows how FGCU performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

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.

Ranking Type Rank
36
Most Popular Legal Support Services Schools 47
Most Focused Legal Support Services Schools 193

The median salary of legal support students who receive their bachelor's degree at FGCU is $30,884. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $35,956 for all legal support students.

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Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at Florida Gulf Coast University.

68% Women
45% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 53 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Legal Support Services from FGCU in 2020-2021, 32% were men and 68% were women. The typical legal support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% men. So male students are more repesented at FGCU since its program graduates 17% more men than average.

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About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal support at FGCU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal support bachelor's program than the national average.*

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 2
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 14
White 28
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

FGCU also has a doctoral program available in legal support. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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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