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Criminal Justice & Corrections at Copper Mountain Community College

Criminal Justice & Corrections at Copper Mountain Community College

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

CMC is located in Joshua Tree, California and approximately 1,539 students attend the school each year.

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.

CMC Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice

CMC Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at CMC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Copper Mountain Community College.

CMC Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate’s Program

75% Women
75% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 25% of criminal justice associate's degrees went to men and 75% went to women.

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CMC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in criminal justice graduates 24% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Copper Mountain Community College with a associate's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 5
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

Concentrations Within Criminal Justice & Corrections

If you plan to be a criminal justice major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Copper Mountain Community College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Criminal Justice 12
Criminal Justice & Police Science 4

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 Copper Mountain Community College.

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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