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Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Widener University

Legal Assistant/Paralegal at Widener University

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

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 Assistant/Paralegal section at the bottom of this page.

  • Basic Certificate in Paralegal (Less Than 1 Year)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Paralegal

The paralegal major at Widener is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Assistant/Paralegal. 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.

Paralegal Student Demographics at Widener

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

100% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 0% of paralegal bachelor's degrees went to men and 100% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its paralegal 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 paralegal.

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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

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 PA, the home state for Widener University.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 12,440 $52,780
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 2,050 $46,170
Legal Support Workers 870 $78,140

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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