Criminology at Delaware State University

If you are interested in studying criminology, you may want to check out the program at Delaware State University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Del State is located in Dover, Delaware and has a total student population of 4,739. Of the 613 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Delaware State University in 2021, 52 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.

Del State Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

Del State Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at Del State compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

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 Del State 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 Focused Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	10
Best Value Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	27
	53
Most Popular Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	55
Best Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	81

How Much Do Criminology Graduates from Del State Make?

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Del State is $32,693. This is less than $33,551, which is the national average of all criminology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Criminology Student Demographics at Del State

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at Delaware State University.

Del State Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 52 criminology students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from Del State, about 31% were men and 69% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 50% 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 Delaware State University with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	43
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

Del State 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
• Sociology

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 DE, the home state for Delaware State University.

Occupation	Jobs in DE	Average Salary in DE
Managers	900	$134,410

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 Smartyllama under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.