Criminology at Dominican University

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

Dominican U is located in River Forest, Illinois and approximately 3,189 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 24 students received a bachelor's degree in criminology from Dominican U.

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

Dominican U Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

Dominican U Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how Dominican U performed in these rankings.

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminology major at Dominican U 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	61
Most Popular Criminology Schools	102

How Much Do Criminology Graduates from Dominican U Make?

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Dominican U is $32,365. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology students.

Criminology Student Demographics at Dominican U

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

Dominican U Criminology Bachelor’s Program

The criminology program at Dominican U awarded 24 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 13% of these degrees went to men with the other 88% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 35% 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 Dominican University with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	19
White	4
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• International Relations & National Security
• Economics
• 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 IL, the home state for Dominican University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Sociologists	350	$86,280

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 HalloweenHJB under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.