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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at SUNY Canton

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at SUNY Canton

If you plan to study legal assistant/paralegal, 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 Assistant/Paralegal section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Paralegal

Online Classes Are Available at SUNY Canton

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SUNY Canton offers distance education options for paralegal at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

The paralegal major at SUNY Canton is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Assistant/Paralegal. 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.

Paralegal Student Demographics at SUNY Canton

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

74% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 26% of paralegal bachelor's degrees went to men and 74% went to women. The typical paralegal bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at SUNY Canton since its program graduates 9% more men than average.

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About 74% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in paralegal 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 paralegal.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 2
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 23
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 NY, the home state for SUNY Canton.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 25,500 $58,750
Legal Support Workers 2,440 $62,760
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 2,140 $60,500

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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