Criminal Justice & Corrections at California State University - Northridge

What traits are you looking for in a criminal justice school? To help you decide if California State University - Northridge is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminal justice program.

CSUN is located in Northridge, California and approximately 40,381 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 333 students received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from CSUN.

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.

CSUN Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

CSUN Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

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

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminal justice major at CSUN 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 Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools	21

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at CSUN

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

CSUN Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

Of the 333 criminal justice students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from CSUN, about 39% were men and 61% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 30% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	240
White	38
International Students	18
Other Races/Ethnicities	15

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

Related Majors

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 CA, the home state for California State University - Northridge.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Accountants and Auditors	148,600	$84,430
Computer Workers	74,690	$103,270
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	72,680	$101,380
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Correctional Officers and Jailers	34,980	$75,400

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
• Image Credit: By Cbl62 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.