Criminal Justice & Corrections at Adelphi University

If you plan to study criminal justice and corrections, take a look at what Adelphi University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Adelphi is located in Garden City, New York and has a total student population of 7,584. Of the 1,381 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Adelphi University in 2021, 24 of them were criminal justice and corrections majors.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice & Corrections section at the bottom of this page.

Adelphi Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Adelphi Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminal justice programs across the country. The following shows how Adelphi performed in these rankings.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminal justice major at Adelphi is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. This could be for a number of reasons, such as not having enough data on the major or school to make an accurate assessment of its quality.

Ranking Type	Rank
Most Focused Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools	767
Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools	951
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Earnings of Adelphi Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at Adelphi is $17,515. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice students.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Adelphi

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Adelphi University.

Adelphi Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

Of the 24 criminal justice students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Adelphi, about 50% were men and 50% were women.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Adelphi University with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	12
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Adelphi also has a doctoral program available in criminal justice. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Homeland Security

Careers That Criminal Justice Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminal justice can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NY, the home state for Adelphi University.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors	110,780	$96,300
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	53,560	$74,860
Correctional Officers and Jailers	35,460	$64,490
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	28,530	$58,050
Managers	16,600	$124,160

References

*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.

• College Factual
• National Center for Education Statistics
• O*NET Online

More about our data sources and methodologies.