Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of South Florida - Main Campus

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

USF Tampa is located in Tampa, Florida and has a total student population of 50,626.

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

USF Tampa Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at USF Tampa

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? USF Tampa offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

• Master’s Degree

USF Tampa Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

Note: Although rankings can help you see some information about a school, it's not a good idea to depend on them alone. Be sure to check out other things about the school before making your decision to attend.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at USF Tampa

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at University of South Florida - Main Campus.

USF Tampa Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 56% of criminal justice master's degrees went to men and 44% went to women.

Of the students who received a criminal justice master's degree from USF Tampa, 61% 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 South Florida - Main Campus with a master's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	2
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	11
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	2

Related Majors

• Homeland Security

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 FL, the home state for University of South Florida - Main Campus.

Occupation	Jobs in FL	Average Salary in FL
Accountants and Auditors	71,940	$71,790
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	37,650	$59,610
Correctional Officers and Jailers	33,060	$43,410
Managers	23,160	$99,240
Computer Workers	11,060	$78,900

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 Rick DeBow under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.