Let Everest College help you prepare for a life-changing career. With the Easy Start program, a personal admissions representative can get to know you and guide you through your career goals, educational options and even help you enroll in a program—all in a few easy steps. Everest College offers:
Easy Enrollment
Our representatives will help you through each step of the enrollment process.
Financial Aid for Those Who Qualify
Financial assistance may be available for those who qualify. For the many students that may qualify for financial assistance, our trained representatives will walk you through the application process.
Flexible Class Schedules
Our programs are designed for working adults. We offer day and evening classes structured to work around your schedule, not ours.
Small Class Sizes
You won't get lost in the crowd. Our class sizes are small, so you can get the attention you deserve.
Career Services Assistance
Our Career Services office will even assist you in your job search upon graduation.
The Paralegal/Legal Assistant program is designed to prepare students to enter the legal field as a Legal Assistant or Paralegal. The program emphasizes practical civil litigation skills and tasks. The program prepares future Legal Assistants and Paralegals to perform tasks such as researching legal issues, drafting legal documents, preparing pleadings, summarizing documents, organizing trial notebooks and interviewing clients.
The program also focuses on another aspect of the legal field: contracts. Students learn about the formation of contracts, breach of contracts and remedies for the breach of contracts. Estate planning, wills, trusts, estate taxes, estate sales, joint tenancy and judicial determination of death are also covered. In addition, the program also covers family law and criminal law. Family law specializes in divorce, separation, custody, adoption, guardianship and community property. In criminal law, students learn about defining common law, statutory crimes and punishment, classification of crimes, principles of liability by specific defenses and basic criminal procedure concepts.
The Associate of Science in Criminal Justice focuses on crime, law enforcement, correction, and the criminal justice system. The program provides an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the mechanisms of social control, resolutions of criminal justice problems, and currently accepted procedures.The curriculum is designed to offer a balance of theory and application that will prove to be challenging to students and useful in the field. Coursework includes classes such as Introduction to Criminal Justice, Criminal Investigation and Police Procedures, Constitutional Law for the Criminal Justice Professional, Criminal Evidence, Criminal Procedure, Criminology, Introduction to Corrections, Juvenile Delinquency and Criminal Justice Report Writing.