Criminology at Cedar Crest College

What traits are you looking for in a criminology school? To help you decide if Cedar Crest College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminology program.

Cedar Crest is located in Allentown, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 1,433. Of the 250 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Cedar Crest College in 2021, 14 of them were criminology majors.

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

Cedar Crest Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

Online Classes Are Available at Cedar Crest

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Cedar Crest offers distance education options for criminology at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Cedar Crest Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how Cedar Crest 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 criminology major at Cedar Crest is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminology. 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 Online Criminology Schools	17
Most Focused Criminology Schools	55

Criminology Student Demographics at Cedar Crest

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at Cedar Crest College.

Cedar Crest Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 14 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminology from Cedar Crest. About 7% were men and 93% were women.

About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminology at Cedar Crest are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Cedar Crest College with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	10
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Cedar Crest also has a doctoral program available in criminology. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Political Science & Government

Careers That Criminology Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for PA, the home state for Cedar Crest College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Managers	11,060	$126,290
Sociologists	60	$121,470

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 CyberXRef under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.