Criminal Justice Studies at Central Washington University

What traits are you looking for in a criminal justice studies school? To help you decide if Central Washington University is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminal justice studies program.

CWU is located in Ellensburg, Washington and has a total student population of 11,174.

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.

CWU Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at CWU

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, CWU does offer online courses in criminal justice studies for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

CWU Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at CWU 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 CWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice studies majors at Central Washington University.

CWU Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

For the most recent academic year available, 49% of criminal justice studies bachelor's degrees went to men and 51% went to women. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at CWU since its program graduates 6% more men than average.

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Central Washington University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	10
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	39
White	79
International Students	6
Other Races/Ethnicities	36

CWU also has a doctoral program available in criminal justice studies. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

Related Majors

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 WA, the home state for Central Washington University.

Occupation	Jobs in WA	Average Salary in WA
Police and Detective Supervisors	2,590	$106,600
Correctional Officer Supervisors	810	$72,750
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	120	$58,730

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 Bobak Ha’Eri under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.