Find Affordable College Courses

What Do You Want to Study?

Criminal Justice & Corrections at Mercy College

Criminal Justice & Corrections at Mercy College

What traits are you looking for in a criminal justice school? To help you decide if Mercy College is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminal justice program.

Mercy is located in Dobbs Ferry, New York and has a total student population of 9,547.

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.

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at Mercy 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.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Mercy

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

Mercy Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

66% Women
90% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 34% of criminal justice bachelor's degrees went to men and 66% went to women.

undefined

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 39% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

undefined
Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 15
Hispanic or Latino 45
White 4
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

Concentrations Within Criminal Justice & Corrections

If you plan to be a criminal justice major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Mercy College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded
Criminal Justice 89

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 NY, the home state for Mercy College.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors 110,780 $96,300
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 53,560 $74,860
Correctional Officers and Jailers 35,460 $64,490
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 28,530 $58,050
Managers 16,600 $124,160

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.

Find Schools Near You

Our free school finder matches students with accredited colleges across the U.S.