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Legal Professions at SUNY Canton

Legal Professions at SUNY Canton

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

SUNY Canton is located in Canton, New York and has a total student population of 3,135.

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.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at SUNY Canton

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, SUNY Canton does offer online courses in legal professions for the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

The legal professions major at SUNY Canton is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Professions. 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.

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

75% Women
25% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 25% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 75% went to women.

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About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at SUNY Canton are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 24
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

If you plan to be a legal professions 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 SUNY Canton. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Support Services 24
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 1

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Canton.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Lawyers 76,840 $167,110
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 25,500 $58,750
Legal Secretaries 15,440 $55,920
Law Professors 3,440 $137,990
Judges, and Magistrates 3,170 $158,970

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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