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Criminal Justice at University of Georgia

Criminal Justice at University of Georgia

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

UGA is located in Athens, Georgia and has a total student population of 39,147.

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.

UGA Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

UGA Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at UGA 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 UGA

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

UGA Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

71% Women
28% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 29% of criminal justice bachelor's degrees went to men and 71% went to women.

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About 71% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UGA 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 Georgia with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 3
Black or African American 11
Hispanic or Latino 9
White 75
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 6

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 GA, the home state for University of Georgia.

Occupation Jobs in GA Average Salary in GA
Managers 14,480 $118,060
Police and Detective Supervisors 5,840 $66,680
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 130 $63,790

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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