Criminal Justice at Nassau Community College

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

Nassau Community College is located in Garden City, New York and has a total student population of 13,864.

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

Nassau Community College Criminal Justice Degrees Available

Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Nassau Community College Criminal Justice Rankings

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Nassau Community College

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

Nassau Community College Criminal Justice Associate’s Program

50% Women

68% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 50% of criminal justice associate's degrees went to men and 50% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in criminal justice only graduates about 45% men each year. The program at Nassau Community College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 6% more women than average.

Nassau Community College does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in criminal justice graduates 13% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	20
Hispanic or Latino	61
White	38
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

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 Nassau Community College.

Occupation	Jobs in NY	Average Salary in NY
Managers	16,600	$124,160
Police and Detective Supervisors	12,650	$115,940
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	1,450	$62,080

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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