The main focus area for this major is Legal Assistant/Paralegal. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Legal Support Services is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Elgin Community College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the associate degree program in legal support, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at ECC paid an average of $396 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $297 per credit hour. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $7,128 | $9,504 |
Fees | $12 | $12 |
Books and Supplies | $1,500 | $1,500 |
Learn more about ECC tuition and fees.
The median early career salary of legal support students who receive their associate degree from ECC is $30,771 per year. That is 9% higher than the national average of $28,116.
Online degrees for the ECC legal support associate degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the ECC Online Learning page.
All of the students who received their Associate in legal support in 2019-2020 were women.
Around 33.3% of legal support associate degree recipients at ECC in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 4 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 0 |
Legal Support Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Legal Assistant/Paralegal | 6 |
*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.