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 Western Kentucky University. Here, you’ll find out more about the major bachelor’s degree program in legal support, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Each year, we produce a number of different types of college rankings to help students decide which school is the best fit for them. The legal support major at WKU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Legal Support. 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.
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Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at WKU paid an average of $1,104 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $450 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 | $10,802 | $26,496 |
Books and Supplies | $1,000 | $1,000 |
On Campus Room and Board | $10,044 | $10,044 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,086 | $2,086 |
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Online degrees for the WKU legal support bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the WKU Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their bachelor’s degree in legal support in 2019-2020, 66.7% of them were women. This is less than the nationwide number of 78.7%.
Around 16.7% of legal support bachelor’s degree recipients at WKU in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 37%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 0 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 5 |
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 | 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.