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Legal Professions at Stetson University

Legal Professions at Stetson University

If you plan to study legal professions, take a look at what Stetson University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Stetson is located in DeLand, Florida and has a total student population of 4,462.

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.

  • Master’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at Stetson

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

  • Master’s Degree

There were 261 students who received their doctoral degrees in legal professions, making the school the #32 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

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

62% Women
23% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 38% of legal professions master's degrees went to men and 62% went to women.

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Of the students who received a legal professions master's degree from Stetson, 69% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

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 Stetson University. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Law 261
Legal Research 18

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 FL, the home state for Stetson University.

Occupation Jobs in FL Average Salary in FL
Lawyers 47,280 $128,920
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 30,230 $50,120
Legal Secretaries 9,460 $45,550
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 4,800 $50,350
Legal Support Workers 1,750 $65,520

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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