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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Nevada State College

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Nevada State College

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

NSC is located in Henderson, Nevada and has a total student population of 7,289.

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

NSC Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

NSC Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at NSC is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Police Science. 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.

Police Science Student Demographics at NSC

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Nevada State College.

NSC Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

73% Women
73% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 27% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 73% went to women. The typical police science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at NSC since its program graduates 37% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 28% more racial-ethnic minorities in its police science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Nevada State College with a bachelor's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 6
Hispanic or Latino 19
White 9
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Careers That Police Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in police science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for NV, the home state for Nevada State College.

Occupation Jobs in NV Average Salary in NV
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 5,120 $70,450
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 550 $87,680
Private Detectives and Investigators 460 $64,080
Bailiffs 170 $56,250
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 160 $51,750

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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