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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Wharton County Junior College

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Wharton County Junior College

If you are interested in studying legal assistant/paralegal, you may want to check out the program at Wharton County Junior College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

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 Assistant/Paralegal section at the bottom of this page.

  • Associate’s Degree in Paralegal

Paralegal Student Demographics at Wharton County Junior College

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

90% Women
70% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 10% of paralegal 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 paralegal 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 paralegal.

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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

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 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
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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