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Criminal Justice at Georgia Highlands College

Criminal Justice at Georgia Highlands College

Every criminal justice school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the criminal justice program at Georgia Highlands College stacks up to those at other schools.

GHC is located in Rome, Georgia and approximately 5,680 students attend the school each year.

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

GHC Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at GHC

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

For those who are interested in distance learning, GHC does offer online courses in criminal justice for the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

GHC Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at GHC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice. 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.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at GHC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Georgia Highlands College.

GHC Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

57% Women
35% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 43% of criminal justice bachelor's degrees went to men and 57% went to women.

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About 65% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at GHC are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia Highlands College with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 15
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Careers That Criminal Justice Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminal justice can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for GA, the home state for Georgia Highlands College.

Occupation Jobs in GA Average Salary in GA
Managers 14,480 $118,060
Police and Detective Supervisors 5,840 $66,680
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 130 $63,790

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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