Legal Professions at University of Maryland Global Campus

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

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and approximately 58,526 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.

UMGC Legal Professions Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMGC Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at UMGC 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.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at UMGC

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

UMGC Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 31% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 69% went to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 19% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Global Campus with a bachelor's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	5
Black or African American	28
Hispanic or Latino	20
White	45
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	21

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

If you plan to be a legal professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Maryland Global Campus. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	87

Related Majors

• Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting

Careers That Legal Professions Grads May Go Into

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 MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Lawyers	12,490	$128,340
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	7,060	$55,950
Legal Secretaries	2,360	$52,950
Legal Support Workers	1,940	$78,850
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	960	$41,100

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.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online
• Image Credit: By M Chambers under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.