Criminal Justice & Police Science at University of Maryland Eastern Shore

87% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)

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

UMES is located in Princess Anne, Maryland and has a total student population of 2,646.

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

UMES Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

UMES Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at UMES is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Police Science. 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.

Police Science Student Demographics at UMES

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

UMES Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

83% Women

87% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 17% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 83% went to women. The typical police science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 36% women. So female students are more repesented at UMES since its program graduates 47% more women than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 42% more racial-ethnic minorities in its police science bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from University of Maryland Eastern Shore with a bachelor's in police science.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	17
Hispanic or Latino	2
White	2
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Careers That Police Science Grads May Go Into

A degree in police science can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MD, the home state for University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Occupation	Jobs in MD	Average Salary in MD
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	12,650	$68,230
Detectives and Criminal Investigators	860	$102,370
Bailiffs	570	$41,750
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	170	$81,650

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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