by our College Data Analytics Team
With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Legal Assistant/Paralegal is the 123rd most popular major in the country with 10,611 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 270 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 31 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,741 and $27,572 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in legal assistant/paralegal. That schools that top this list have a program in legal assistant/paralegal in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
For more information, check out our ranking methodology.
The paralegal school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we’ve developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania”.
To further help you make the college decision, we’ve developed a unique tool called College Combat that allows you to compare schools based on the factors that matter the most to you. When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don’t forget it.
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Peirce College landed the #1 spot on the list. Peirce is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It awarded 17 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 100%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Widener University. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania list. This medium-sized school is located in Chester, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 7 bachelors’s paralegal degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Gannon University landed the #3 spot on the list. Gannon is a private not-for-profit institution located in Erie, Pennsylvania. The school has a small population, and it awarded 4 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.1%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Students who start out at the school are likely to stick around. The freshman retention rate is 85%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Clarion University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania list. Clarion University of Pennsylvania is located in Clarion, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 3 bachelors’s paralegal degrees to qualified students.
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