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Legal Professions at University of Maryland Global Campus

Legal Professions at University of Maryland Global Campus

What traits are you looking for in a legal professions school? To help you decide if University of Maryland Global Campus is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's legal professions program.

UMGC is located in Adelphi, Maryland and has a total student population of 58,526.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Legal Professions section at the bottom of this page.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Legal Professions

Online Classes Are Available at UMGC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? UMGC offers distance education options for legal professions at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the legal professions majors at University of Maryland Global Campus.

If you plan to be a legal professions major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Maryland Global Campus. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded

A degree in legal professions can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland Global Campus.

Occupation Jobs in MD Average Salary in MD
Lawyers 12,490 $128,340
Paralegals and Legal Assistants 7,060 $55,950
Legal Secretaries 2,360 $52,950
Legal Support Workers 1,940 $78,850
Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers 960 $41,100

References

*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.

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