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Program Details
Grand Total, All Reporting Institutions
Legal Assistant/Paralegal (22.0302)
Associate's Degree - Applied

Enrollment, Awards, Wages, Debt, and Other Outcomes

Program Status:

Degree Title:

2010 CIP Code:

	Credit Hours	Program Offered
On-Campus:
Off-Campus:

Date Progam Approved to Confer Degrees:

Date of Last Council Action (mm/yyyy)

Date Program Placed on Probation:

Date Program Closed:

BCHE - Before Council of Higher Education

Enrollments and Awards
Academic Year	Fall Headcount	Annual FTE	Degrees
2019-20	491	347	110
2020-21	471	334	106
2021-22	429	294	88
2022-23	423	286	107
2023-24	397	281	87

Average time-to-completion in years	Average credits-to-completion	Average monthly earnings six months after graduation
4.34	58	$ 3,713

The table to the right provides the degree award history of each the last five years, disaggregated by state residency. This breakout may may help explain why a relatively low percentage of program completers may appear to be working in Virginia.

Program Graduates by Domicile
Year	In-State	Out-of-State	Total
2018-19	131	4	135
2019-20	109	1	110
2020-21	100	6	106
2021-22	87	1	88
2022-23	103	4	107
Five Year Summary	530	16	546

Distribution by Gender and Race/Ethnicity within Five-year Totals,

Year	Foreign/ International	African Am. or Black (NH)	Am. Indian/ Native Am. (NH)	Asian/ Pacific Islander (NH)	Hispanic	White, Caucasian Am. (NH)	Multi-Race (NH)	Unknown/ Unreported (NH)	Total
Sum of the Last 5 Years	11	101	6	15	546	68	314	7	546

Wages Earned in 2020

The table below shows the wage data for the select program and places it in the context of all wages at the same degree level of this institution by graduates with at least three (3) quarters of employment.

Post-Completion Wage Outcomes, Earnings in 2022
Graduation Year	Grads (n)	Grads w/Wages (n)	25th Percentile	Median Wage	75th Percentile
2011-12 (10 years)	620	52%	$35,217	$51,075	$67,505
2013-14 (8 years)	693	49%	$35,085	$50,735	$65,522
2016-17 (5 years)	710	57%	$31,182	$43,156	$57,666
2018-19 (3 years)	667	59%	$29,158	$40,146	$52,886
2020-21 (18 months)	586	63%	$25,958	$37,303	$50,227

Student Debt of Graduates

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2013-14 to 2017-18	318	46.6%	$ 7,800	$ 15,349	$ 18,185	$ 25,736
2014-15 to 2018-19	304	45.6%	$ 7,227	$ 15,313	$ 18,161	$ 25,732
2015-16 to 2019-20	291	46.1%	$ 7,893	$ 16,647	$ 19,065	$ 26,922
2016-17 to 2020-21	263	44.9%	$ 9,400	$ 17,261	$ 19,415	$ 26,072
2017-18 to 2021-22	241	43.0%	$ 8,959	$ 17,500	$ 19,234	$ 25,024

Note: Student borrowing at graduation, excludes PLUS loans, in five-year rollups. Includes all known institutionally-processed borrowing occuring at all public and nonprofit institutions in Virginia. Debt accrued outside Virginia in prior postsecondary activity is not available.

Number of Borrowers and Known Debt at Graduation, Including Parent-PLUS and Grad-PLUS
	Borrowers (n)	Borrowers (%)	25th Percentile	Median	Mean	75th Percentile
2013-14 to 2017-18	319	46.8%	$ 8,170	$ 15,486	$ 18,565	$ 26,830
2014-15 to 2018-19	305	45.7%	$ 7,276	$ 15,453	$ 18,663	$ 26,469
2015-16 to 2019-20	292	46.3%	$ 8,209	$ 16,998	$ 19,736	$ 27,657
2016-17 to 2020-21	265	45.2%	$ 9,402	$ 17,322	$ 20,242	$ 27,276
2017-18 to 2021-22	243	43.4%	$ 8,911	$ 17,703	$ 19,909	$ 26,720

More Details on Enrollment History.

More Details on Degree Awards History.