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Legal Support Services at The University of West Florida

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Legal Support Services at The University of West Florida

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

UWF is located in Pensacola, Florida and has a total student population of 13,061. In 2021, 48 legal support majors received their bachelor's degree from UWF.

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.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Support

The following rankings from College Factual show how the legal support progam at UWF compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The legal support major at UWF is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Support Services. 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.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Focused Legal Support Services Bachelor’s Degree Schools 19

The median salary of legal support students who receive their bachelor's degree at UWF is $28,210. This is less than $35,956, which is the national average of all legal support majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

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Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at The University of West Florida.

63% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 48 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in legal support from UWF in 2021, 38% were men and 63% were women. The typical legal support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 15% men. So male students are more repesented at UWF since its program graduates 22% more men than average.

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About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal support at UWF 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 The University of West Florida with a bachelor's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 31
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

UWF also has a doctoral program available in legal support. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 FL, the home state for The University of West Florida.

Occupation Jobs in FL Average Salary in FL
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
Court Reporters 1,340 $47,950

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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