2025 Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania

Legal Assistant/Paralegal is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #28 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Pennsylvania to determine which ones were the best for legal assistant/paralegal students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 100 associate degrees in legal assistant/paralegal to qualified students.

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Choosing a Great Legal Assistant/Paralegal School for Your Associate Degree

The paralegal associate degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a associate degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. 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.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on legal assistant/paralegal students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of legal assistant/paralegal students who choose to seek a associate 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.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal assistant/paralegal related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for legal assistant/paralegal students working on their associate degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in Pennsylvania list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Legal Assistant/Paralegal in Pennsylvania

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal.

Top Pennsylvania Schools for an Associate in Paralegal

1

Community College of Allegheny County
Pittsburgh, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

19 Annual Graduates

Community College of Allegheny County is a wonderful option for individuals pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. CCAC is a large public college located in the large city of Pittsburgh.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Community College of Allegheny County

2

Community College of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

13 Annual Graduates

Community College of Philadelphia is a good option for individuals pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Community College of Philadelphia is a large public college located in the city of Philadelphia.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Community College of Philadelphia

3

Harrisburg Area Community College
Harrisburg, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

10 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Harrisburg Area Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. HACC is a fairly large public college located in the city of Harrisburg.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Harrisburg Area Community College

4

Northampton County Area Community College
Bethlehem, PA

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat Northampton County Area Community College if you want to pursue an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Located in the suburb of Bethlehem, Northampton Community College is a public college with a moderately-sized student population.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Northampton County Area Community College

Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Schools in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	429	408
New Jersey	249	91
Maryland	221	104
Delaware	96	15
District of Columbia	46	2

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Rankings in Majors Related to Paralegal

Legal Assistant/Paralegal is one of 5 different types of Legal Support Services programs to choose from.

Most Popular Majors Related to Paralegal

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Court Reporting and Captioning	2

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.