Criminology at Holy Names University

Every criminology school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the criminology program at Holy Names University stacks up to those at other schools.

HNU is located in Oakland, California and has a total student population of 1,014. Of the 145 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Holy Names University in 2021, 8 of them were criminology majors.

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

HNU Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

HNU Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how HNU 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 HNU 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 Popular Criminology Schools	164

Criminology Student Demographics at HNU

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

HNU Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 8 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminology from HNU in 2020-2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at HNU since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminology bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	5
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

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

Related Majors

• Political Science & Government
• International Relations & National Security
• Sociology

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 CA, the home state for Holy Names University.

Occupation	Jobs in CA	Average Salary in CA
Managers	66,300	$143,350
Sociologists	1,070	$98,560

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 HolyNamesWebmaster under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.