2025 Best Legal Support Services Schools in Iowa

Legal Support Services is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #106 most popular degree program in the country. So, you have a fair amount of options to choose from when looking for a school.

In 2025, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Legal Support Services Schools in Iowa ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 59 degrees in legal support services during the 2021-2022 academic year.

What's on this page: * Degree-Level Rankings

• Best Overall Legal Support Services Schools List

Pick Your Legal Support Services Degree Level

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 Schools in Iowa. More interested in schools in a specific area of the country? Filter this list by region or state.

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Best Schools for Legal Support Services in Iowa

The schools below may not offer all types of legal support degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.

Top Iowa Schools in Legal Support

1

Des Moines Area Community College
Ankeny, IA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

$49,137 Median Starting Salary

Des Moines Area Community College is a great decision for students pursuing a degree in legal support services. DMACC is a very large public college located in the large suburb of Ankeny.

Legal Support Services degree recipients from Des Moines Area Community College earn a boost of about $11,186 over the typical earnings of legal support services majors.

More information about a degree in legal support services from Des Moines Area Community College

2

Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids, IA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

It is hard to beat Kirkwood Community College if you want to pursue a degree in legal support services. Kirkwood Community College is a fairly large public college located in the city of Cedar Rapids.More information about a degree in legal support services from Kirkwood Community College

Best Legal Support Services Colleges in the Plains States Region

Explore all the Best Legal Support Services Schools in the Plains States Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Minnesota	284	85
Missouri	283	63
Kansas	266	43
Nebraska	238	24
North Dakota	210	7
South Dakota	204	0

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Rankings in Majors Related to Legal Support

One of 4 majors within the Legal Professions area of study, Legal Support Services has other similar majors worth exploring.

Legal Support Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Legal Assistant/Paralegal	55
Court Reporting and Captioning	4

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Majors Similar to Legal Support

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Law	269
Non-Professional General Legal Studies	51
Legal Professions (Other)	25
Legal Research	3

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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.