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Legal Support Services at Mount Wachusett Community College

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Legal Support Services at Mount Wachusett Community College

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

MWCC is located in Gardner, Massachusetts and has a total student population of 3,187.

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

Online Classes Are Available at MWCC

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? MWCC offers distance education options for legal support at the following degree levels:

  • Associate’s Degree

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Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at Mount Wachusett Community College.

73% Women
36% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 27% of legal support associate's degrees went to men and 73% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in legal support only graduates about 15% men each year. The program at MWCC may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 12% more women than average.

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The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in legal support at MWCC are white. Around 64% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 7
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 MA, the home state for Mount Wachusett Community College.

Occupation Jobs in MA Average Salary in MA
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 7,330 $60,320
Legal Secretaries 3,920 $59,020
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 590 $63,330
Legal Support Workers 300 $80,420
Court Reporters 260 $79,720

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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