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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Northern Virginia Community College

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Northern Virginia Community College

If you plan to study legal assistant/paralegal, take a look at what Northern Virginia Community College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Northern Virginia Community College is located in Annandale, Virginia and has a total student population of 52,873.

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.

  • Associate’s Degree in Paralegal

Paralegal Student Demographics at Northern Virginia Community College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the paralegal majors at Northern Virginia Community College.

95% Women
54% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 5% of paralegal associate's degrees went to men and 95% went to women.

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Northern Virginia Community College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in paralegal graduates 9% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Northern Virginia Community College with a associate's in paralegal.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 13
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

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 VA, the home state for Northern Virginia Community College.

Occupation Jobs in VA Average Salary in VA
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 9,960 $51,600
Legal Support Workers 7,050 $114,390
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,390 $45,530

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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