Criminology at Rockford University

If you plan to study criminology, take a look at what Rockford University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

Rockford is located in Rockford, Illinois and approximately 1,272 students attend the school each year. Of the 239 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Rockford University in 2021, 4 of them were criminology majors.

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

Rockford Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

Rockford Criminology Rankings

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

Note: While rankings may be a good starting point when you're researching a school, they don't necessarily highlight all of a school's strengths. Don't forget to check out the other details that are available for a school to see if it has what you're looking for in a program.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminology major at Rockford 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	128
Most Focused Criminology Schools	133
Most Popular Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	167
Most Popular Criminology Schools	184

Criminology Student Demographics at Rockford

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

Rockford Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 4 criminology majors earned their bachelor's degree from Rockford. Of these graduates, 75% were men and 25% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at Rockford since its program graduates 38% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 6% 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 Rockford University with a bachelor's in criminology.

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

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

Related Majors

• Economics
• International Relations & National Security
• Political Science & Government
• Sociology & Anthropology

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 IL, the home state for Rockford University.

Occupation	Jobs in IL	Average Salary in IL
Sociologists	350	$86,280

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

More about our data sources and methodologies.