Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Rio Salado College

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

Rio Salado College is located in Tempe, Arizona and approximately 17,362 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.

Rio Salado College Legal Assistant/Paralegal Degrees Available

Undergrad Certificate in Paralegal (1 - 4 Years)
Associate’s Degree in Paralegal

Online Classes Are Available at Rio Salado College

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? Rio Salado College offers distance education options for paralegal at the following degree levels:

Associate’s Degree

Rio Salado College Legal Assistant/Paralegal Rankings

Paralegal Student Demographics at Rio Salado College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the paralegal majors at Rio Salado College.

Rio Salado College Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate’s Program

74% Women

33% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 26% of paralegal associate's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in paralegal only graduates about 16% men each year. The program at Rio Salado College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 10% more women than average.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in paralegal at Rio Salado College are white. Around 59% 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 Rio Salado College with a associate's in paralegal.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	16
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

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 AZ, the home state for Rio Salado College.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	7,280	$48,370
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	840	$53,850
Legal Support Workers	690	$58,220

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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