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Legal Professions at United States Military Academy

Legal Professions at United States Military Academy

If you are interested in studying legal professions, you may want to check out the program at United States Military Academy. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

West Point is located in West Point, New York and approximately 4,536 students attend the school each year.

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

The legal professions major at West Point 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 United States Military Academy.

25% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 75% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 25% went to women. The typical legal professions bachelor's degree program is made up of only 38% men. So male students are more repesented at West Point since its program graduates 37% more men than average.

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About 69% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at West Point 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 United States Military Academy with a bachelor's in legal professions.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 4
White 38
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 United States Military Academy. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Non-Professional General Legal Studies 43

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 United States Military Academy.

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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