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 Salt Lake 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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In 2019-2020, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Salt Lake Community College was $516 per credit hour for out-of-state students. The average for in-state students was $147 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $3,488 | $12,208 |
Fees | $501 | $501 |
Books and Supplies | $700 | $700 |
Learn more about Salt Lake Community College tuition and fees.
One factor in determining the overall cost in a degree is to consider how much in student loans you’ll have to take out. Legal Support students who received their associate degree at Salt Lake Community College took out an average of $9,592 in student loans. That is 56% lower than the national average of $21,915.
legal support who receive their associate degree from Salt Lake Community College make an average of $34,420 a year during the early days of their career. That is 22% higher than the national average of $28,116.
Salt Lake Community College does not offer an online option for its legal support associate degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Salt Lake Community College Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their associate degree in legal support in 2019-2020, 90.5% of them were women. This is higher than the nationwide number of 85.1%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 14.3% of the legal support associate degrees at Salt Lake Community College in 2019-2020. This is lower than the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 17 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 1 |
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 | 21 |
*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.