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Criminal Justice Studies at West Virginia State University

Criminal Justice Studies at West Virginia State University

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

WVSU is located in Institute, West Virginia and has a total student population of 3,638.

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.

WVSU Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

WVSU Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at WVSU 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 WVSU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice studies majors at West Virginia State University.

WVSU Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

52% Women
36% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 48% of criminal justice studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 52% went to women. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 41% men. So male students are more repesented at WVSU since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

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About 56% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies at WVSU 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 West Virginia State University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 7
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 14
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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 WV, the home state for West Virginia State University.

Occupation Jobs in WV Average Salary in WV
Police and Detective Supervisors 240 $66,840
Correctional Officer Supervisors 150 $61,000
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 70 $43,400

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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