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Legal Support Services at William Rainey Harper College

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Legal Support Services at William Rainey Harper College

If you plan to study legal support services, take a look at what William Rainey Harper College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Harper College is located in Palatine, Illinois and approximately 12,199 students attend the school each year.

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.

  • Basic Certificate in Legal Support (Less Than 1 Year)
  • Associate’s Degree in Legal Support

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Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at William Rainey Harper College.

100% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 0% of legal support associate's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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Harper College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in legal support graduates 8% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from William Rainey Harper College with a associate's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 5
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 IL, the home state for William Rainey Harper College.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 13,540 $57,180
Legal Secretaries 7,880 $51,140
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,070 $47,670
Legal Support Workers 810 $61,910
Court Reporters 700 $68,560

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*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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