Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Mount Olive

Every criminal justice and corrections school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the criminal justice program at University of Mount Olive stacks up to those at other schools.

UMO is located in Mount Olive, North Carolina and approximately 2,536 students attend the school each year. Of the 541 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Mount Olive in 2021, 61 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.

UMO Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at UMO

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

• Bachelor’s Degree

UMO Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminal justice progam at UMO 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 UMO 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
Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools	168
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools	222
Most Focused Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools	279
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools	491

Earnings of UMO Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at UMO is $39,890. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 17% higher than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UMO

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at University of Mount Olive.

UMO Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

Of the 61 criminal justice students who graduated with a bachelor's degree in 2020-2021 from UMO, about 48% were men and 52% were women.

About 51% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UMO 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 University of Mount Olive with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	16
Hispanic or Latino	8
White	31
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

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

Related Majors

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 NC, the home state for University of Mount Olive.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Accountants and Auditors	33,020	$76,880
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	22,350	$48,420
Correctional Officers and Jailers	15,720	$38,500
Managers	11,990	$121,500
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	11,610	$46,990

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 Mount Olive College under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.