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Center for Advanced Legal Studies

Houston, Texas Private for-profit 4-year Large city

Overview

Center for Advanced Legal Studies is a private for-profit four-year institution in Houston, Texas. Its campus is in a large city. It enrolled 271 students in fall 2024.

Center for Advanced Legal Studies offers certificates, associate degrees, and bachelor's degrees across 2 programs. Its largest programs by number of graduates are Legal Assistant/Paralegal and Legal Professions and Studies, Other. It awarded 213 degrees and certificates in 2024-25. 2 of its programs can be completed entirely online.

The school has an open admission policy. The student-to-faculty ratio is 25 to 1.

Mission

The mission of Center for Advanced Legal Studies is to provide students with the knowledge and skills necessary to meet the needs of the legal, governmental, and business communities.

Mission statement as reported by Center for Advanced Legal Studies

Key figures

Open
Admission policy
271
Students enrolled
213
Degrees and certificates awarded, 2024-25
2
Programs and majors
25:1
Student-to-faculty ratio

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Delivery modes

CampusOnlineHybrid

Program levels

CertificateAssociateBachelor

Programs and majors offered 2

Graduate counts are degrees and certificates awarded in each program between July 2024 and June 2025. Largest fields are listed first.

Legal Professions and Studies 2

Admissions

Admission policy
Open admission

Outcomes

Retention is for students who started in fall 2023 and returned in fall 2024.

Student-to-faculty ratio
25:1

Degrees and certificates awarded

Awards conferred between July 1, 2024 and June 30, 2025.

Bachelor's degrees
1
Associate degrees
44
Certificates under 1 year
168

Enrollment

Students, fall 2024
271
Undergraduates, fall 2024
271
Full-time, fall 2024
100%
Students over the full 2024-25 year
415
Full-time, 2024-25
100%
Size category
Under 1,000 students

Student body

Share of all students enrolled during 2024-25. Small groups can round to zero and are not listed.

Women
90%
Men
10%
White
30%
Hispanic or Latino
28%
Black or African American
38%
Asian
2%
Two or more races
1%
American Indian or Alaska Native
1%

Online and flexible learning

Distance education in 2024-25.

Programs that can be completed fully online
2
Online undergraduate programs
Yes
Students studying fully online
98%
Students taking some online courses
2%
Weekend or evening classes
Yes

Campus and services

Setting
Large city
Academic calendar
Continuous
Carnegie classification
Special Focus Two-Year: Other Fields
Director
Doyle Happe
Services and opportunities
Academic and career counseling, Job placement for graduates, Accepts AP credit, Credit for life experience
For veterans and service members
Credit for military training, Dedicated veterans contact

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