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Legal Support Services at Peirce College

If you are interested in studying legal support services, you may want to check out the program at Peirce College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Peirce is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,046. Of the 186 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Peirce College in 2021, 17 of them were legal support services majors.

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
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Support

Online Classes Are Available at Peirce

Online courses are a good option for students who need a more flexible schedule that allows them to pursue an education when and where they want. Whether you're going to school part-time or full-time, you may find distance education the right choice for you.

Peirce does offer online education options in legal support for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

  • Associate’s Degree
  • Bachelor’s Degree

The following rankings from College Factual show how the legal support progam at Peirce compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The legal support major at Peirce is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Support Services. 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.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Popular Online Legal Support Services Schools 15
Most Popular Online Legal Support Services Basic Certificate Schools 17
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Best Value Legal Support Services Basic Certificate Schools 22
Most Focused Legal Support Services Associate Degree Schools 33
Most Popular Online Legal Support Services Associate Degree Schools 35
Best Legal Support Services Associate Degree Schools 53
Best Value Legal Support Services Associate Degree Schools 64
Best Value Legal Support Services Schools 65
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Most Popular Legal Support Services Basic Certificate Schools 106
Most Popular Legal Support Services Schools 114

The median salary of legal support students who receive their bachelor's degree at Peirce is $36,348. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $35,956 for all legal support bachelor's degree recipients.

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

88% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 13% of legal support associate's degrees went to men and 88% went to women.

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Peirce 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 Peirce College with a associate's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 4
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

65% Women
41% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 35% of legal support bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women. The typical legal support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% men. So male students are more repesented at Peirce since its program graduates 20% more men than average.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 7
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Peirce also has a doctoral program available in legal support. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 PA, the home state for Peirce College.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 12,440 $52,780
Legal Secretaries 7,420 $50,980
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 2,050 $46,170
Court Reporters 900 $52,330
Legal Support Workers 870 $78,140

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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