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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Illinois State University

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Illinois State University

If you are interested in studying legal assistant/paralegal, you may want to check out the program at Illinois State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Illinois State is located in Normal, Illinois and approximately 20,720 students attend the school each year.

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Paralegal

The paralegal major at Illinois State is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Assistant/Paralegal. 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.

Paralegal Student Demographics at Illinois State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the paralegal majors at Illinois State University.

68% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 32% of paralegal bachelor's degrees went to men and 68% went to women. The typical paralegal bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at Illinois State since its program graduates 15% more men than average.

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About 68% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in paralegal at Illinois State 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 Illinois State University with a bachelor's in paralegal.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 13
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Careers That Paralegal Grads May Go Into

A degree in paralegal 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 Illinois State University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 13,540 $57,180
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,070 $47,670
Legal Support Workers 810 $61,910

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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