Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Alabama at Birmingham

If you plan to study criminal justice and corrections, take a look at what University of Alabama at Birmingham has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

UAB is located in Birmingham, Alabama and has a total student population of 22,563. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 92 students received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from UAB.

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

UAB Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice
• Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice

UAB Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminal justice progam at UAB 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 criminal justice major at UAB is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. 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 Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools	138
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools	162
	370
	548

In 2021, 9 students received their master’s degree in criminal justice from UAB. This makes it the #163 most popular school for criminal justice master’s degree candidates in the country.

Earnings of UAB Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at UAB is $32,883. Unfortunately, this is lower than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice students.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UAB

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at University of Alabama at Birmingham.

UAB Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

Of the 92 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in criminal justice from UAB in 2021, 39% were men and 61% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	39
Hispanic or Latino	6
White	37
International Students	2
Other Races/Ethnicities	4

UAB Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Program

Of the 9 criminal justice students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from UAB, about 11% were men and 89% were women.

In the criminal justice master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 67% of degree recipients. That is 16% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Alabama at Birmingham with a master's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	5
Hispanic or Latino	0
White	3
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

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

Related Majors

• Security Science and Technology

Careers That Criminal Justice Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminal justice can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for AL, the home state for University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Occupation	Jobs in AL	Average Salary in AL
Accountants and Auditors	15,720	$70,310
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	11,410	$45,930
Correctional Officers and Jailers	4,680	$36,760
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	3,460	$40,710
Managers	2,110	$106,680

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 Lee Adlaf under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.