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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Hawkeye Community College

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Hawkeye Community College

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

Hawkeye Community College is located in Waterloo, Iowa and has a total student population of 5,042.

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.

Hawkeye Community College Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Associate’s Degree in Police Science

Online Classes Are Available at Hawkeye Community College

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Hawkeye Community College offers distance education options for police science at the following degree levels:

  • Associate’s Degree

Hawkeye Community College Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

Police Science Student Demographics at Hawkeye Community College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Hawkeye Community College.

Hawkeye Community College Criminal Justice & Police Science Associate’s Program

21% Women
26% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 79% of police science associate's degrees went to men and 21% went to women.

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The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in police science at Hawkeye Community College are white. Around 74% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Hawkeye Community College with a associate's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 2
White 14
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

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 IA, the home state for Hawkeye Community College.

Occupation Jobs in IA Average Salary in IA
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 4,860 $58,340
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 390 $73,320
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 130 $88,750

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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