The main focus area for this major is Legal Assistant/Paralegal. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Legal Support Services is a major offered under the legal professions program of study at Virginia Western Community College. Here, you’ll find out more about the major associate degree program in legal support, including such details as the number of graduates, diversity of students, and more.
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Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at Virginia Western Community College paid an average of $333 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $156 per credit hour. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $4,680 | $9,978 |
Fees | $675 | $1,380 |
Books and Supplies | $1,500 | $1,500 |
Learn more about Virginia Western Community College tuition and fees.
legal support who receive their associate degree from Virginia Western Community College make an average of $20,140 a year during the early days of their career. That is 28% lower than the national average of $28,116.
Virginia Western Community College does not offer an online option for its legal support associate degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Virginia Western Community College Online Learning page.
Women made up around 83.3% of the legal support students who took home an associate degree in 2019-2020. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 85.1%.
Around 25.0% of legal support associate degree recipients at Virginia Western Community College in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 42%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 0 |
Black or African American | 1 |
Hispanic or Latino | 0 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 9 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 2 |
Legal Support Services students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Legal Assistant/Paralegal | 12 |
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
More about our data sources and methodologies.