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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Eastern Illinois University

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Eastern Illinois University

If you are interested in studying criminal justice & police science, you may want to check out the program at Eastern Illinois University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and approximately 8,626 students attend the school each year.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice & Police Science section at the bottom of this page.

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at EIU is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Police Science. 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.

Police Science Student Demographics at EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
42% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 33% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 67% went to women. The typical police science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 31% more women than average.

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About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in police science at EIU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 8
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 23
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

Careers That Police Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in police science 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 Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 30,370 $75,720
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 2,940 $87,470
Bailiffs 1,550 $57,220
Private Detectives and Investigators 860 $60,630
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 600 $62,280

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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