2024 Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #250 in the country in terms of popularity. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Plains States Region to determine which ones were the best for legal assistant/paralegal students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 54 bachelor's degrees in legal assistant/paralegal during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Bachelor’s Degree Schools List

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal assistant/paralegal students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal assistant/paralegal students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal assistant/paralegal related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal assistant/paralegal students working on their bachelor's degree.

More Ways to Rank Legal Assistant/Paralegal Schools

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 Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Plains States Region list to help you make the college decision.

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. Go ahead and give it a try, or bookmark the link so you can check it out later.

 

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Legal Assistant/Paralegal in the Plains States Region

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal.

Top Plains States Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Paralegal

1

Washburn University
Topeka, KS

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Washburn University is a wonderful option for students interested in a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Washburn University is a medium-sized public university located in the midsize city of Topeka.More information about a bachelor’s in legal assistant/paralegal from Washburn University

2

Minnesota State University - Moorhead
Moorhead, MN

18 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Minnesota State University - Moorhead if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Located in the suburb of Moorhead, MSU Moorhead is a public university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in legal assistant/paralegal from Minnesota State University - Moorhead

Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Colleges by State

Explore the best legal assistant/paralegal colleges for a specific state in the Plains States Region .

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Missouri	475	3
Minnesota	446	18
Iowa	403	5
Kansas	352	16
Nebraska	331	8

View All Rankings >

Legal Assistant/Paralegal Related Rankings by Major

One of 5 majors within the Legal Support Services area of study, Legal Assistant/Paralegal has other similar majors worth exploring.

Notes and References

• The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
• The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
• Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard). More about our data sources and methodologies.