by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
In 2020-2021, 10,611 people earned their degree in legal assistant/paralegal, making the major the 123rd most popular in the United States.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 270 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 0 legal assistant/paralegal graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,028 and $0 respectively.
This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal assistant/paralegal.
See our ranking methodology to learn more.
When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania” list to help you make the college decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for pennsylvania doctor’s degree paralegal students.
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Paralegal Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Widener University landed the #1 spot on the list. Widener is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school situated in Chester, Pennsylvania. It awarded 15 doctorate’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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