2025 Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Associate Degree Schools in Minnesota

Ranked #28 in popularity, legal assistant/paralegal is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Minnesota to determine which ones were the best for legal assistant/paralegal students pursuing a associate degree. Combined, these schools handed out 63 associate degrees in legal assistant/paralegal to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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

Your choice of legal assistant/paralegal for getting your associate degree school matters. Important measures of a quality paralegal program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:

Overall Quality Is a Must

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of various factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to legal assistant/paralegal students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other legal assistant/paralegal students want to attend this school to pursue a associate degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized legal assistant/paralegal related body.

Our full 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.

More Ways to Rank Legal Assistant/Paralegal Schools

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 Minnesota list to help you make the college decision.

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

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal.

Top Minnesota Schools for an Associate in Paralegal

1

Rasmussen University - Minnesota
St. Cloud, MN

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a good choice for students pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Located in the city of St. Cloud, Rasmussen University - Minnesota is a private for-profit university with a medium-sized student population.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Rasmussen University - Minnesota

2

Inver Hills Community College
Inver Grove Heights, MN

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat Inver Hills Community College if you wish to pursue an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. Located in the suburb of Inver Grove Heights, IHCC is a public college with a small student population.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from Inver Hills Community College

3

North Hennepin Community College
Brooklyn Park, MN

Associate Degree Highest Degree Type

17 Annual Graduates

North Hennepin Community College is a great decision for individuals pursuing an associate degree in legal assistant/paralegal. North Hennepin Community College is a moderately-sized public college located in the large suburb of Brooklyn Park.More information about a associate in legal assistant/paralegal from North Hennepin Community College

Best Legal Assistant/Paralegal Colleges in the Plains States Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Kansas	275	25
Missouri	210	59
Iowa	200	42
Nebraska	163	16
North Dakota	144	5

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Legal Assistant/Paralegal Related Rankings by Major

One of 5 majors within the Legal Support Services area of study, Legal Assistant/Paralegal has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Paralegal

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary	8
Court Reporting and Captioning	5

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.