Find Affordable College Courses

What Do You Want to Study?

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Oklahoma Panhandle State University

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Oklahoma Panhandle State University

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

OPSU is located in Goodwell, Oklahoma and has a total student population of 1,337.

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.

OPSU Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

OPSU Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at OPSU 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 OPSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Oklahoma Panhandle State University.

OPSU Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

43% Women
57% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 57% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 43% 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 OPSU since its program graduates 7% more women than average.

undefined

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 12% 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 Oklahoma Panhandle State University with a bachelor's in police science.

undefined
Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 3
White 3
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 OK, the home state for Oklahoma Panhandle State University.

Occupation Jobs in OK Average Salary in OK
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 7,480 $46,120
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 840 $66,130
Private Detectives and Investigators 300 $42,820
Bailiffs 80 $34,380
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 60 $53,090

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.