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 Tarrant County College District. 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, whether or not the degree is offered online, and more.
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During the 2019-2020 academic year, part-time undergraduate students at Tarrant County College paid an average of $305 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $126 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 | $3,402 | $8,235 |
Books and Supplies | $1,631 | $1,631 |
Learn more about Tarrant County College tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their associate degree at Tarrant County College in Legal Support walked away with an average of $14,960 in student debt. That is 32% lower than the national average of $21,915.
The median early career salary of legal support students who receive their associate degree from Tarrant County College is $33,565 per year. That is 19% higher than the national average of $28,116.
Tarrant County 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 Tarrant County College Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their associate degree in legal support in 2019-2020, 73.5% of them were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 85.1%.
Around 41.2% of legal support associate degree recipients at Tarrant County College in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is about the same as the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 2 |
Black or African American | 5 |
Hispanic or Latino | 7 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 19 |
International Students | 1 |
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 | 34 |
*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.