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Criminal Justice Studies at University of Massachusetts - Boston

Criminal Justice Studies at University of Massachusetts - Boston

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

UMass Boston is located in Boston, Massachusetts and approximately 16,259 students attend the school each year.

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

UMass Boston Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

UMass Boston Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at UMass Boston is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice Studies. 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 Studies Student Demographics at UMass Boston

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

UMass Boston Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

65% Women
58% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 35% of criminal justice studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 65% went to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 7% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 8
Black or African American 32
Hispanic or Latino 41
White 51
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 10

Careers That Criminal Justice Studies Grads May Go Into

A degree in criminal justice studies can lead to the following careers. Since job numbers and average salaries can vary by geographic location, we have only included the numbers for MA, the home state for University of Massachusetts - Boston.

Occupation Jobs in MA Average Salary in MA
Police and Detective Supervisors 4,670 $100,620
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 370 $75,080
Correctional Officer Supervisors 120 $68,980

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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