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Legal Support Services at Southwest Tennessee Community College

Legal Support Services at Southwest Tennessee Community College

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

Southwest is located in Memphis, Tennessee and has a total student population of 7,371.

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.

  • Associate’s Degree in Legal Support

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

100% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 0% of legal support associate's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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Southwest does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in legal support graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

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

If you plan to be a legal support major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southwest Tennessee Community College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Assistant/Paralegal 11

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 TN, the home state for Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Occupation Jobs in TN Average Salary in TN
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 4,100 $49,050
Legal Secretaries 3,010 $43,480
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 1,150 $45,830
Legal Support Workers 500 $62,330
Court Reporters 220 $52,150

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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