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 was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Legal Support Services is the 106th most popular major in the country with 11,545 degrees awarded in 2020-2021. In 2019-2020, legal support services graduates who were awarded their degree in 2017-2019, earned an average of $31,370 and had an average of $27,882 in loans still to pay off.
Across Illinois, there were 388 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $34,401 and $22,519 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 47 legal support services graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,117 and $25,584 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois” ranking, we looked at 5 colleges that offer a degree in legal support services. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in legal support services.
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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The colleges and universities below are the best for illinois bachelor’s degree legal support students.
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Roosevelt University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois. Roosevelt is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Chicago, Illinois. It awarded 14 bachelors’s legal support degrees in 2020-2021.
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Out of the 5 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois that were part of this year’s ranking, Southern Illinois University Carbondale landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Carbondale, Illinois, this fairly large public school handed out 14 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s legal support students in 2020-2021.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lewis University. It ranked #3 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois list. Lewis is located in Romeoville, Illinois and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s legal support degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Illinois State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois list. Normal, Illinois is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s legal support degrees to 10 students in 2020-2021.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 3.6% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Loyola University Chicago. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Legal Support Major in Illinois list. Loyola University Chicago is a private not-for-profit institution located in Chicago, Illinois. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.7%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. With a freshman retention rate of 85%, the school does an excellent job of retaining its undergraduate students.
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