Criminology at Southern Wesleyan University

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

SWU is located in Central, South Carolina and approximately 1,345 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 students received a bachelor's degree in criminology from SWU.

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

SWU Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

SWU Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at SWU 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 SWU 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 Schools	78
Most Focused Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	83
Most Popular Criminology Schools	157

Earnings of SWU Criminology Graduates

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at SWU is $33,661. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 0% higher than the national average of $33,551 for all criminology bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminology Student Demographics at SWU

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

SWU Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 criminology majors earned their bachelor's degree from SWU. Of these graduates, 33% were men and 67% were women.

About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminology at SWU are white. This is typical for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	5
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• General Social Sciences

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 SC, the home state for Southern Wesleyan University.

Occupation	Jobs in SC	Average Salary in SC
Managers	1,760	$100,890

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 Robert Thall under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.