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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at University of Southern Mississippi

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at University of Southern Mississippi

71% Women (Bachelor's)
18% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)
17 Bachelor's Degrees
If you are interested in studying legal assistant/paralegal, you may want to check out the program at University of Southern Mississippi. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Southern Miss is located in Hattiesburg, Mississippi and approximately 14,606 students attend the school each year.

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

The paralegal major at Southern Miss 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 Southern Miss

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

71% Women
18% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of paralegal bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women. The typical paralegal 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 paralegal 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 paralegal.

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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

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 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 Support Workers 90 $54,620

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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