Criminology at Old Dominion University

If you are interested in studying criminology, you may want to check out the program at Old Dominion University. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Old Dominion is located in Norfolk, Virginia and has a total student population of 24,286. In 2021, 209 criminology majors received their bachelor's degree from Old Dominion.

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

Old Dominion Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology
• Doctorate Degree in Criminology

Online Classes Are Available at Old Dominion

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? Old Dominion offers distance education options for criminology at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Old Dominion Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at Old Dominion 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 criminology major at Old Dominion is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminology. 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 Criminology Doctor’s Degree Schools	7
Most Focused Criminology Doctor’s Degree Schools	8
Best Value Criminology Schools	58

Earnings of Old Dominion Criminology Graduates

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at Old Dominion is $33,849. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminology Student Demographics at Old Dominion

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminology majors at Old Dominion University.

Old Dominion Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 209 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminology from Old Dominion in 2020-2021, 36% were men and 64% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminology bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Old Dominion University with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	59
Hispanic or Latino	27
White	104
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	14

Old Dominion also has a doctoral program available in criminology. In 2021, 2 students graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

• Geography & Cartography
• Economics
• International Relations & National Security
• Political Science & Government
• Sociology

Careers That Criminology Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminology can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for VA, the home state for Old Dominion University.

Occupation	Jobs in VA	Average Salary in VA
Managers	17,280	$134,500

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 D’Ana Knowles under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.