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Legal Support Services at Wharton County Junior College

Legal Support Services at Wharton County Junior College

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

Wharton County Junior College is located in Wharton, Texas and approximately 6,099 students attend the school each year.

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.

  • Associate’s Degree in Legal Support

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal support majors at Wharton County Junior College.

90% Women
70% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 10% of legal support associate's degrees went to men and 90% went to women.

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Wharton County Junior College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in legal support graduates 25% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Wharton County Junior College with a associate's in legal support.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 6
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

If you plan to be a legal support major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Wharton County Junior College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Legal Assistant/Paralegal 4

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 TX, the home state for Wharton County Junior College.

Occupation Jobs in TX Average Salary in TX
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 24,290 $56,270
Legal Secretaries 12,990 $46,430
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 6,250 $57,940
Legal Support Workers 2,140 $63,140

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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