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Legal Support Services at Western Kentucky University

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Legal Support Services at Western Kentucky University

If you plan to study legal support services, 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 approximately 17,517 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,055 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Western Kentucky University in 2021, 13 of them were legal support services majors.

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 WKU 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 Western Kentucky University.

92% Women
38% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students earned a bachelor's degree in legal support from WKU. About 92% of these graduates were women and the other 8% were men.

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About 54% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in legal support at WKU are white. This is typical 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 support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 7
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

WKU also has a doctoral program available in legal support. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 KY, the home state for Western Kentucky University.

Occupation Jobs in KY Average Salary in KY
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 2,940 $46,130
Legal Secretaries 2,080 $36,440
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 360 $39,760
Legal Support Workers 280 $58,320

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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