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Criminal Justice & Corrections at Kentucky Wesleyan College

If you are interested in studying criminal justice and corrections, you may want to check out the program at Kentucky Wesleyan College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Wesleyan is located in Owensboro, Kentucky and approximately 887 students attend the school each year. Of the 171 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Kentucky Wesleyan College in 2021, 12 of them were criminal justice and corrections majors.

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

Wesleyan Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at Wesleyan

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? Wesleyan offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

Wesleyan Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminal justice progam at Wesleyan compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminal justice major at Wesleyan is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. 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 Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools 132
Most Popular Online Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools 148
Most Popular Online Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools 293
Most Focused Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools 348
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools 631
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools 1,298

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Wesleyan

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

Wesleyan Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

42% Women
17% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 12 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice & Corrections from Wesleyan in 2020-2021, 58% were men and 42% were women.

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About 75% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Wesleyan 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 Kentucky Wesleyan College with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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

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 KY, the home state for Kentucky Wesleyan College.

Occupation Jobs in KY Average Salary in KY
Accountants and Auditors 11,160 $67,080
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 7,830 $45,600
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 7,740 $40,950
Correctional Officers and Jailers 5,850 $35,940
Managers 3,260 $92,630

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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