Criminology at University of Central Arkansas

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

UCA is located in Conway, Arkansas and approximately 10,335 students attend the school each year. In 2021, 53 criminology majors received their bachelor's degree from UCA.

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

UCA Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

UCA Criminology Rankings

Each year, College Factual ranks criminology programs across the country. The following shows how UCA performed in these rankings.

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 UCA 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 Value Criminology Bachelor’s Degree Schools	38
	113

Earnings of UCA Criminology Graduates

The median salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor's degree at UCA is $27,665. This is less than $33,551, which is the national average of all criminology majors in the nation who earn bachelor's degrees.

Criminology Student Demographics at UCA

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

UCA Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 53 criminology majors earned their bachelor's degree from UCA. Of these graduates, 30% were men and 70% were women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% 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 University of Central Arkansas with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	4
Black or African American	10
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	26
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	9

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

Related Majors

• Geography & Cartography
• Anthropology
• Economics
• Sociology
• 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 AR, the home state for University of Central Arkansas.

Occupation	Jobs in AR	Average Salary in AR
Managers	3,360	$86,410

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 Steve Wright Jr. (flickr user: Wright Way Photography) under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.