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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Western Connecticut State University

Criminal Justice & Police Science at Western Connecticut State University

46% Women (Bachelor's)
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities* (Bachelor's)
76 Bachelor's Degrees
If you plan to study criminal justice & police science, take a look at what Western Connecticut State University has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

WestConn is located in Danbury, Connecticut and has a total student population of 5,246.

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.

WestConn Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

WestConn Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at WestConn 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 WestConn

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Western Connecticut State University.

WestConn Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

46% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 54% of police science bachelor's degrees went to men and 46% 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 WestConn since its program graduates 11% more women than average.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 5% 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 Western Connecticut State University with a bachelor's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 8
Hispanic or Latino 26
White 36
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

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 CT, the home state for Western Connecticut State University.

Occupation Jobs in CT Average Salary in CT
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 6,450 $71,920
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 940 $90,470

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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