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 Community College of Baltimore County. 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 CCBC paid an average of $372 per credit hour if they came to the school from out-of-state. In-state students paid a discounted rate of $241 per credit hour. The average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates are shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $5,784 | $8,928 |
Fees | $1,134 | $1,134 |
Books and Supplies | $1,430 | $1,430 |
Learn more about CCBC 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. Legal Support students who received their associate degree at CCBC took out an average of $15,000 in student loans. That is 32% lower than the national average of $21,915.
CCBC 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 CCBC Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their associate degree in legal support in 2019-2020, 64.7% of them were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 85.1%.
Racial-ethnic minority graduates* made up 52.9% of the legal support associate degrees at CCBC in 2019-2020. This is higher than the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 6 |
Hispanic or Latino | 2 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 1 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 8 |
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 | 17 |
*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.