Criminology at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

If you plan to study criminology, take a look at what John Jay College of Criminal Justice has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

John Jay is located in New York, New York and has a total student population of 15,766. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 219 students received a bachelor's degree in criminology from John Jay.

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

John Jay Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

John Jay Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how John Jay 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 criminology major at John Jay 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
Best Value Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	11
Best Value Criminology Schools	15
	18
Most Focused Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	22

How Much Do Criminology Graduates from John Jay Make?

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at John Jay is $37,123. This is 11% higher than $33,551, which is the national average for all criminology bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminology Student Demographics at John Jay

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

John Jay Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 219 criminology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from John Jay, about 25% were men and 75% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	11
Black or African American	32
Hispanic or Latino	135
White	27
International Students	11
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Anthropology
• Other Social Sciences
• International Relations & National Security
• Sociology
• Economics

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 NY, the home state for John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Sociologists	190	$75,800

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 Beyond My Ken under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.