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Legal Support Services at University of Southern Mississippi

Legal Support Services at University of Southern Mississippi

If you plan to study legal support services, take a look at what University of Southern Mississippi has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and has a total student population of 14,606.

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 legal support major at Southern Miss 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.

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at University of Southern Mississippi.

71% Women
18% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of legal support bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women. The typical legal support bachelor's degree program is made up of only 16% men. So male students are more repesented at Southern Miss since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

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About 82% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal support at Southern Miss 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 University of Southern Mississippi with a bachelor's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 3
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 14
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

The following legal support concentations are available at University of Southern Mississippi. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at University of Southern Mississippi. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Assistant/Paralegal 26

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 MS, the home state for University of Southern Mississippi.

Occupation Jobs in MS Average Salary in MS
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 1,820 $44,300
Legal Secretaries 770 $40,080
Legal Support Workers 90 $54,620
Court Reporters 40 $45,210

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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