Criminal Justice & Police Science at George Mason University

55% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

If you plan to study criminal justice & police science, take a look at what George Mason University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and approximately 38,541 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.

GMU Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

GMU Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at GMU 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 GMU

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

GMU Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

59% Women

55% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 41% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 59% 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 GMU since its program graduates 24% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% more racial-ethnic minorities in its police science bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	30
Black or African American	41
Hispanic or Latino	112
White	143
International Students	4
Other Races/Ethnicities	32

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 VA, the home state for George Mason University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	18,080	$56,710
Detectives and Criminal Investigators	2,980	$98,850
Bailiffs	480	$43,430

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
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