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Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Alaska Anchorage

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Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Alaska Anchorage

What traits are you looking for in a criminal justice school? To help you decide if University of Alaska Anchorage is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminal justice program.

UAA is located in Anchorage, Alaska and approximately 11,953 students attend the school each year. In the 2020-2021 academic year, 26 students received a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from UAA.

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.

UAA Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at UAA

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? UAA offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

UAA Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminal justice progam at UAA 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 criminal justice major at UAA 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
Most Popular Online Criminal Justice & Corrections Basic Certificate Schools 90
Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Basic Certificate Schools 442

How Much Do Criminal Justice Graduates from UAA Make?

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at UAA is $36,810. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 8% higher than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

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Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UAA

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

UAA Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

38% Women
54% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The criminal justice program at UAA awarded 26 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 62% of these degrees went to men with the other 38% going to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 3% 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 Alaska Anchorage with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 6
White 10
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 7

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

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 AK, the home state for University of Alaska Anchorage.

Occupation Jobs in AK Average Salary in AK
Accountants and Auditors 2,090 $82,920
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 1,480 $48,970
Managers 1,410 $118,650
Correctional Officers and Jailers 1,120 $64,670
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 1,070 $88,030

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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