Criminal Justice at University of Central Missouri

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

UCM is located in Warrensburg, Missouri and has a total student population of 9,959.

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

UCM Criminal Justice Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Criminal Justice (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice
• Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at UCM

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UCM Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at UCM is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice. 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.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UCM

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

UCM Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 53% of criminal justice bachelor's degrees went to men and 47% went to women. The typical criminal justice bachelor's degree program is made up of only 45% men. So male students are more repesented at UCM since its program graduates 8% more men than average.

About 81% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UCM are white. This is above average for this degree on the nationwide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	72
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	7

UCM Criminal Justice Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 22% of criminal justice master's degrees went to men and 78% went to women.

Of the students who received a criminal justice master's degree from UCM, 78% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

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

Related Majors

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 MO, the home state for University of Central Missouri.

Occupation	Jobs in MO	Average Salary in MO
Managers	3,980	$97,820
Police and Detective Supervisors	2,220	$78,750
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	230	$85,710

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.