Criminal Justice Studies at Yavapai College

If you are interested in studying criminal justice studies, you may want to check out the program at Yavapai College. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Yavapai College is located in Prescott, Arizona and has a total student population of 6,009.

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.

Yavapai College Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

Basic Certificate in Criminal Justice Studies (Less Than 1 Year)
Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at Yavapai College

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

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

Associate’s Degree

Yavapai College Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

Criminal Justice Studies Student Demographics at Yavapai College

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice studies majors at Yavapai College.

Yavapai College Criminal Justice Studies Associate’s Program

53% Women

40% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*

For the most recent academic year available, 47% of criminal justice studies associate's degrees went to men and 53% went to women. The typical associate's degree program in criminal justice studies only graduates about 41% men each year. The program at Yavapai College may seem more male-friendly since it graduates 5% more women than average.

The majority of those who receive an associate's degree in criminal justice studies at Yavapai College are white. Around 60% fell into this category, which is below average for this degree.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Yavapai College with a associate's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	0
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	9
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

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 AZ, the home state for Yavapai College.

Occupation	Jobs in AZ	Average Salary in AZ
Police and Detective Supervisors	3,020	$94,120
Correctional Officer Supervisors	1,620	$56,580
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	120	$62,550

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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