Earn a degree with a 100% job placement rate

You’ve seen high-profile trials with a person keying the testimony into a steno-graph machine or read the scrolling captions for the hearing-impaired on your TV screen. The person recording the spoken words at speeds ranging from 180 to 225 words a minute is a court reporter. If you’re an excellent listener, have strong language and communications skills, and are committed to accuracy and confidentiality, a career in court reporting may be a perfect fit for you.

This program is available 100% online within the iFlex instructional mode. Students are able to attend classes from home. NOTE: A minimum internet connection speed of 3 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload is required. The computer must use Windows 7 or newer operating system.

Additional Information

Lakeshore's Court Reporting Program is approved by the National Court Reporters Association

Lakeshore has also partnered with Project Steno. For more information, visit their website http://projectsteno.org

Career Area

Law, Public Safety and Security

Type

Associate Degree

Program Number

10-170-2

Availability

iFlex

Associate Degree
5 Terms
60 Credits
Financial Aid Eligible
Starts August

NEW: Ask how we can bring the Court Reporting program to you even if you live too far from a local campus

Career Outlook

Court Reporting

Median Income: $48,859.00*

POTENTIAL JOB TITLES

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Court Reporters and Simultaneous Captioners

Use verbatim methods and equipment to capture, store, retrieve, and transcribe pretrial and trial proceedings or other information. Includes stenocaptioners who operate computerized stenographic captioning equipment to provide captions of live or prerecorded broadcasts for hearing-impaired viewers.

Disclosure:

*Lightcast/EMSI data is a hybrid dataset derived from official government sources such as the US Census Bureau, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and Bureau of Labor Statistics. This salary data is from Lakeshore District, unless noted otherwise (i.e. Wind programs use State of WI.)

Admissions Flexible Learning Courses

ADMISSIONS TO DO's

Work with Admissions Advisor to:

Submit Application
Complete the Broadcast Captioning & Court Report Rental Equipment form.
Complete the Student Success Questionnaire.
Complete Technical Standards Form.
Schedule your First Time Program Counseling/Registration Session with your assigned program counselor to plan your first semester schedule, review your entire plan of study and discuss the results of the Student Success Questionnaire.

*Submit transcripts and test scores (optional, highly recommended): College transcripts, along with high school transcripts and test scores from within the last five years, used for course registration. Official transcripts needed for transferring college credit(s) and for financial aid purposes.

Approximate Costs

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Contact an Admissions Advisor at 920.693.1162

This rigorous program offers classes during the day, Monday through Thursday.

Students are able to attend classes from home or, if attending from home is not a possibility, they can schedule a room at their local technical college, library or somewhere in their own community. NOTE: A minimum internet connection speed of 3 Mbps download and 1 Mbps upload is required. The computer must use Windows 7 or newer operating system.

Designed to fit your life schedule, iFlex scheduling provides flexibility to attend courses through a blend of online and face-to-face, totally online, or flexing between these two modes on a weekly basis. Classes are not self-paced and have weekly deadlines. Students will have identical learning components (assessments and lecture materials, whether sitting in the classroom, attending synchronously through videoconferencing, or learning online).

This iFlex program is scheduled efficiently and reduces student travel to campus, with a mix of in-person class days and online instruction

This program is available 100% online within the iFlex instructional mode.

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Faculty Bios

Jackie Rupnow

I have never met a reporter that didn't love their job and what better way to pass that love and passion for the profession along to our future professionals!

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