Legal Professions at Western Kentucky University

If you plan to study legal professions, take a look at what Western Kentucky University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WKU is located in Bowling Green, Kentucky and has a total student population of 17,517.

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.

WKU Legal Professions Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Legal Professions (Less Than 1 Year)
• Associate’s Degree in Legal Professions
• Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

WKU Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at WKU 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 WKU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal professions majors at Western Kentucky University.

WKU Legal Professions Associate’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 0% of legal professions associate's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Western Kentucky University with a associate's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	1
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

WKU Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 20% of legal professions bachelor's degrees went to men and 80% went to women.

About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal professions at WKU 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 Western Kentucky University with a bachelor's in legal professions.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

Legal Professions majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Western Kentucky University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Support Services	13

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 KY, the home state for Western Kentucky University.

Occupation	Jobs in KY	Average Salary in KY
Lawyers	5,740	$100,100
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	2,940	$46,130
Legal Secretaries	2,080	$36,440
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	360	$39,760
Administrative Law Judges, Adjudicators, and Hearing Officers	340	$57,090

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 OPMaster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.