Criminology at University of Rhode Island

If you are interested in studying criminology, you may want to check out the program at University of Rhode Island. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

URI is located in Kingston, Rhode Island and approximately 17,649 students attend the school each year. Of the 3,855 students who graduated with a bachelor’s degree from University of Rhode Island in 2021, 115 of them were criminology majors.

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

URI Criminology Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminology

URI Criminology Rankings

The following rankings from College Factual show how the criminology progam at URI compares to programs at other colleges and universities.

Note: Rankings don't always give a complete picture of a school's strengths and weaknesses, so it's a good idea to extend your research and also look at other factors when trying to decide if the school is right for you.

Bachelor’s Degree Overall Quality & Other Notable Rankings

The criminology major at URI 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 Schools	144

Criminology Student Demographics at URI

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

URI Criminology Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 115 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in criminology from URI. About 41% were men and 59% were women. The typical criminology bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% men. So male students are more repesented at URI since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

About 76% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminology at URI 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 Rhode Island with a bachelor's in criminology.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	2
Black or African American	9
Hispanic or Latino	10
White	87
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	6

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

Related Majors

• Other Social Sciences
• Anthropology
• Geography & Cartography
• International Relations & National Security
• Sociology

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 RI, the home state for University of Rhode Island.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Managers	830	$114,660

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 Tnricci under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.