Legal Professions at Widener University

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

Widener is located in Chester, Pennsylvania and approximately 6,150 students attend the school each year.

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.

Widener Legal Professions Degrees Available

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

Widener Legal Professions Rankings

The legal professions major at Widener 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.

There were 288 students who received their doctoral degrees in legal professions, making the school the #22 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Legal Professions Student Demographics at Widener

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

Widener Legal Professions Bachelor’s Program

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

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 17% more racial-ethnic minorities in its legal professions bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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

Widener Legal Professions Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of legal professions master's degrees went to men and 78% went to women.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	1
International Students	21
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

Concentrations Within Legal Professions

The following legal professions concentations are available at Widener University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Widener University. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded
Law	269
Legal Research	38
Legal Support Services	8

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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 PA, the home state for Widener University.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Lawyers	24,980	$138,610
Paralegals and Legal Assistants	12,440	$52,780
Legal Secretaries	7,420	$50,980
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers	2,050	$46,170
Judicial Law Clerks	1,070	$40,550

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 User:Smallbones at English Wikipedia. under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.