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Best Title Examiner programs in North Dakota, ranked by enrollment

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1 schools in North Dakota run programs that feed this job, graduating 3 people a year. The job pays a median of $59,980 in North Dakota across about 140 jobs (BLS OEWS May 2025).

Also calledAbstractorTitle OfficerTitle ExaminerTitle SearcherSearcherTitle AgentTitle ClerkTitle Closer
Graduates / yr
3
in North Dakota
Median pay · North Dakota
$59,980
BLS OEWS May 2025
Jobs in state
140
people employed
Schools
1
with a feeder program
Avg graduation rate
21%
across those schools
Median net price
$2,819
per year, IPEDS

Fields of study in North Dakota that lead to this job

Grouped at the 4-digit CIP level. Numbers are graduates per year in this state.

1 programs in North Dakota that lead to this job

Ranked by graduates per year in North Dakota (IPEDS completions). Graduate earnings and debt are national College Scorecard figures reported at the 4-digit CIP level, so specializations within one field share a figure. Each program also links to its own North Dakota page.

Degree programs that lead to this occupation, ranked by graduates per year
#ProgramGraduates / yrShare of pipelineSchoolsGrad earnings (1 yr)Median debt
13
100.0%
1$37,542$25,166

Top 1 schools in North Dakota

Ranked by graduates per year into this job. Graduate earnings are reported for 0 of the 1 schools in this state.

Schools ranked by graduates per year into this occupation
#SchoolGraduates / yrTop feeder programGrad earnings (1 yr)Grad rateNet priceAcceptance
1United Tribes Technical College
Bismarck, ND Private not-for-profit · 1 feeder programs
3Legal Assistant/Paralegal21%$2,819

All 1 schools in North Dakota

Every school in North Dakota with a program that feeds this job, ordered by graduates per year. Earnings are shown for the ranked schools above; open a school profile for the rest.

All schools in North Dakota that feed this occupation
SchoolCityControlGraduates / yrFeeder programs
United Tribes Technical CollegeBismarckPrivate not-for-profit31

What title examiners, abstractors, and searchers earn in North Dakota

What people already working in this job earn (BLS OEWS May 2025). Not graduate earnings.

Median annual in North Dakota
$59,980
Mean annual
$66,500
Jobs in state
140
What the range looks like
10th pct$48,760Median$59,98090th pct$99,820
Versus the national median
+2.3%

U.S. median $58,650. North Dakota pays above the national figure.

Job concentration
1.06×

1.00× means the state has its expected share of these jobs.

Metro areas in North Dakota

Fargo, ND-MN
$62,410median
40 jobs

Job outlook

Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections, 2024 to 2034.

Projected growth 2024–34
+2.0%
About as fast as average
Openings per year
5,400
new jobs plus replacements
Employment change
1,100
57,400 → 58,500
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
Plus moderate-term on-the-job training

Growth and openings are national. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish employment projections at state level, so these figures describe the occupation across the whole U.S., not this state alone.

How to get in

The full skills, tools, and day-to-day breakdown lives on the national Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers page.

How to become a Title Examiner

Job zone 2 of 5 · SVP Below 6.0
Typical entry education
High school diploma or equivalent
On-the-job training
Moderate-term on-the-job training

Usually requires a high school diploma or GED, though some occupations may not.

Some occupations may need little or no previous experience; others require several months to a year of experience. For example, landscaping and groundskeeping workers might require very little training or previous experience, while agricultural equipment operators can benefit from on-the job training.

Ranges from a few days to one year of on-the-job training.

Top skills

Reading ComprehensionActive ListeningCritical ThinkingSpeakingWritingMonitoring

The same job in other states

Where else this occupation employs the most people, and what it pays there.

Related careers in North Dakota

Every major mapped to this job

The official federal mapping behind the rankings above.

All 1 majors mapped to Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers1 of them graduated someone in the latest IPEDS year. NCES CIP 2020 → SOC 2018 crosswalk.+
  • 22.0302Legal Assistant/Paralegal

Common questions

Answers for people weighing title examiners, abstractors, and searchers programs in North Dakota.

What degree do you need to become a Title Examiner?+

High school diploma or equivalent is the typical entry-level education BLS reports for this occupation. The most common program people actually graduate from is Legal Assistant/Paralegal, which awarded 3 degrees in North Dakota in 2024-25, 100.0% of everyone graduating from a program that feeds this career.

Which college majors lead to becoming a Title Examiner?+

The NCES CIP-to-SOC crosswalk maps 1 programs to this occupation. The largest are Legal Support Services. Together they graduate about 3 people a year in North Dakota.

How much do title examiners, abstractors, and searchers earn in North Dakota?+

The median is $59,980 a year (BLS OEWS May 2025). That is 2.3% above the U.S. median of $58,650. This is pay for people already working in the occupation, not the same thing as graduate earnings one year after finishing a degree.

Is demand for title examiners, abstractors, and searchers growing?+

BLS projects a +2.0% change in employment between 2024 and 2034, about as fast as average, with roughly 5,400 openings a year nationally once retirements and job changes are counted.

How many schools offer programs for this career in North Dakota?+

1 institutions in North Dakota reported graduates from at least one of the 1 programs that feed this occupation in IPEDS 2024-25. Rankings on this page use graduates per year, because the federal data publishes no enrollment count by program.

What other job titles do title examiners, abstractors, and searchers work under?+

Employers advertise this work under many names. O*NET records Abstractor, Title Officer, Title Examiner, Title Searcher among the most commonly reported, all mapping to SOC 23-2093.

Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers in other statesCaliforniaTexasNew YorkFloridaVirginiaIndianaIllinoisNorth Carolina
Programs in North DakotaLegal Assistant/Paralegal

About the data on this page

Rankings use IPEDS completions 2024–25, degrees awarded per year. That is the closest federal measure of how many people a program puts into a career, because no federal dataset publishes enrollment by program. Wages and employment come from BLS OEWS May 2025, growth and openings from BLS Employment Projections 2024-34, and which majors lead to which jobs from the NCES CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk. Occupation descriptions, tasks, skills and tools are O*NET 30.3 (CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor/ETA).

  • BLS Occupational Employment & Wage Statistics

    May 2025

    Wages, employment counts, location quotients and metro breakdowns.

  • BLS Employment Projections

    2024–34

    Projected growth, annual openings and typical entry-level education.

  • IPEDS Completions

    2024-25 (provisional)

    Graduates per year by program and institution — the ranking metric.

  • College Scorecard, Field of Study

    2020-21 cohorts

    Median graduate earnings one year after completion, and median debt.

  • Census Post-Secondary Employment Outcomes

    latest available

    Graduate earnings 1/5/10 years out, where the state participates.

  • NCES CIP 2020 and the CIP-to-SOC 2018 crosswalk

    CIP 2020 / SOC 2018

    Which college programs officially lead to this occupation.

  • O*NET Database 30.3

    30.3

    Tasks, skills, knowledge, tools, job zone and alternate job titles.

    Official source →CC BY 4.0, U.S. Department of Labor / ETA

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