Legal Professions at Northeastern State University

Every legal professions school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the legal professions program at Northeastern State University stacks up to those at other schools.

NSU is located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma and has a total student population of 7,349.

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

NSU Legal Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at NSU

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? NSU offers distance education options for legal professions at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

NSU Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at NSU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Professions. 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.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at NSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal professions majors at Northeastern State University.

NSU Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 40% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 60% went to women. The typical legal professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at NSU since its program graduates 2% more men than average.

About 60% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at NSU are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level. Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northeastern State University with a bachelor's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	6
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

Legal Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at Northeastern State University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	13

Related Majors

• Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting

Careers That Legal Professions Grads May Go Into

A degree in legal professions can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for OK, the home state for Northeastern State University.

Occupation	Jobs in OK	Average Salary in OK
Lawyers	6,420	$118,790
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	2,920	$48,330
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	1,820	$49,280
Legal Secretaries	1,550	$37,150
Judges, and Magistrates	880	$77,130

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By CPacker under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.