CIP 22.0301 · CLASSIFICATION 2020

Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary.

A program that prepares individuals to serve as legal office managers, special assistants, and legal secretaries. Includes instruction in office management, secretarial science, principles of U.S. or Canadian law, legal terminology and documentation, legal research, legal software applications, law office procedures, record-keeping, billing, applicable policies and regulations, and professional standards and ethics.

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These institutions reported at least one first-major completion in this field in the connected reporting years ending 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020. This shows historical award activity, not a complete list of available programs or an assurance that a course is accepting applications.

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Sources: NCES CIP 2020 classification and C2023_A.zip, C2024_A.zip, C2025_A.zip, C2020_A.zip, C2021_A.zip, C2022_A.zip, C2024_A.zip.

Connected Legal Administrative Assistant/Secretary award observations

Each row describes one ending year and award level for CIP 22.0301. Institution counts overlap across levels and years. Award counts are historical first-major awards, not unique people, available places, programme quality or a graduation rate.

Year ending	Award level	Reporting institutions	Positive awards
2025	Certificate 1–2 years	20	170
2025	Associate degree	17	61
2025	Bachelor degree	1	2
2025	Master degree	1	8
2025	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	20	125
2024	Certificate 1–2 years	21	201
2024	Associate degree	19	52
2024	Master degree	1	21
2024	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	22	128
2023	Certificate 1–2 years	21	127
2023	Associate degree	18	58
2023	Bachelor degree	1	1
2023	Master degree	1	13
2023	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	16	57
2022	Certificate 1–2 years	25	147
2022	Associate degree	25	69
2022	Certificate 2–4 years	1	1
2022	Master degree	1	15
2022	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	20	90
2021	Certificate 1–2 years	36	160
2021	Associate degree	26	81
2021	Certificate 2–4 years	1	3
2021	Master degree	1	8
2021	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	20	133
2020	Certificate 1–2 years	42	173
2020	Associate degree	28	71
2020	Certificate 2–4 years	1	7
2020	Bachelor degree	1	1
2020	Master degree	1	15
2020	Certificate 12 weeks to under 1 year	28	121

A year ending 2025 describes July 2024–June 2025. Do not add different years to estimate an entering class or current enrolment. Follow an institution's field link below to inspect the exact records.

These counts cover exact institution-ID matches to our connected directory, rather than a complete national total. Historical providers outside that population remain in the original source evidence and are not assigned invented matches. Read the population and archive rules →

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CIP 22.0301 is a reporting classification. The official definition above explains its scope, while a university may use a different programme title. Related fields in classification family 22 can involve different curricula and award levels.

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