Criminology at Lebanon Valley College

If you plan to study criminology, take a look at what Lebanon Valley College has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

LVC is located in Annville, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,959 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 13 students received a bachelor's degree in criminology from LVC.

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

LVC Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

LVC Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at LVC 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 criminology major at LVC 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
Best Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	71
Best Criminology Schools	71
	126
Most Popular Criminology Schools	132
	138

Earnings of LVC Criminology Graduates

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at LVC is $25,491. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology students.

Criminology Student Demographics at LVC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at Lebanon Valley College.

LVC Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 13 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminology from LVC in 2020-2021, 77% were men and 23% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at LVC since its program graduates 40% more men than average.

About 85% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminology at LVC 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 Lebanon Valley College with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

LVC 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
• Sociology
• Economics

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 PA, the home state for Lebanon Valley College.

Occupation	Jobs in PA	Average Salary in PA
Managers	11,060	$126,290
Sociologists	60	$121,470

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 John Phelan under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.