Criminology at William Peace University

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

WPU is located in Raleigh, North Carolina and approximately 830 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 22 criminology majors received their bachelor's degree from WPU.

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

WPU Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

WPU Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at WPU compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminology major at WPU 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
Most Focused Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	3
	84
	85
Most Popular Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	98
Most Popular Criminology Schools	108
Best Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	110
Best Criminology Schools	120

Earnings of WPU Criminology Graduates

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at WPU is $29,782. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology students.

Criminology Student Demographics at WPU

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

WPU Criminology Bachelor’s Program

Of the 22 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in criminology from WPU in 2021, 50% were men and 50% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at WPU since its program graduates 13% more men than average.

About 59% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminology at WPU 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 William Peace University with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	13
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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

Related Majors

• Anthropology
• Political Science & Government

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 NC, the home state for William Peace University.

Occupation	Jobs in NC	Average Salary in NC
Managers	11,990	$121,500
Sociologists	70	$95,260

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 Abbylabar under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.