When it comes to popularity, a bachelor's degree in legal support services sits in the middle of the road, ranking #159 out of 363 majors in the country. So, you may have to do some digging around to find quality schools that offer the degree program. This list can help with that.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Ohio to determine which ones were the best for bachelor's degree seekers in the field of legal support services. Combined, these schools handed out 70 bachelor's degrees in legal support services to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Legal Support Services School for Your Bachelor's Degree
The legal support bachelor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality legal support program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Average Early-Career Salaries
Average early-career salary of those graduating with their bachelor's degree is one indicator we use in our analysis to find the schools that offer the highest-quality education. After all, your bachelor's degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal support services students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of legal support services students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
Student Debt - How easy is it for legal support services to pay back their student loans after receiving their bachelor's degree.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal support services related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal support services students working on their bachelor's degree.
The legal support 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 the Best Legal Support Services Bachelor's Degree Schools in Ohio.
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 Support Services in Ohio
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in legal support services.
Top Ohio Schools for a Bachelor's in Legal Support
University of Cincinnati - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in legal support services. UC is a fairly large public university located in the large city of Cincinnati.
Those legal support services students who get their bachelor's degree from University of Cincinnati - Main Campus earn $5,184 more than the standard legal support graduate.
Kent State University at Kent is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in legal support services. Kent State is a very large public university located in the suburb of Kent.
Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the legal support program report average early career earnings of $35,365.
It's difficult to beat University of Toledo if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in legal support services. Located in the large city of Toledo, University of Toledo is a public university with a large student population.
Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the legal support program earn about $31,496 in the first couple years of their career.
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.