Criminology at Eastern Michigan University

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

Eastern Michigan is located in Ypsilanti, Michigan and approximately 16,294 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 92 students received a bachelor's degree in criminology from Eastern Michigan.

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

Eastern Michigan Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology
• Master’s Degree in Criminology

Eastern Michigan Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how Eastern Michigan 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 Eastern Michigan 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	94

In 2021, 5 students received their master’s degree in criminology from Eastern Michigan. This makes it the #44 most popular school for criminology master’s degree candidates in the country.

How Much Do Criminology Graduates from Eastern Michigan Make?

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Eastern Michigan is $35,159. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 5% higher than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminology Student Demographics at Eastern Michigan

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

Eastern Michigan Criminology Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 38% of criminology bachelor's degrees went to men and 62% went to women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Eastern Michigan since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	25
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	46
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	12

Eastern Michigan Criminology Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 5 students graduated with a master's degree in criminology from Eastern Michigan. About 20% were men and 80% were women.

In the criminology master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 60% of degree recipients. That is 16% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Eastern Michigan University with a master's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• General Social Sciences
• International Relations & National Security
• Sociology
• Geography & Cartography
• Anthropology

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 MI, the home state for Eastern Michigan University.

Occupation	Jobs in MI	Average Salary in MI
Managers	6,370	$98,780
Sociologists	110	$88,180

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 Dwight Burdette under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.