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Criminal Justice & Corrections at John Jay College of Criminal Justice

If you plan to study criminal justice and corrections, take a look at what John Jay College of Criminal Justice has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

John Jay is located in New York, New York and approximately 15,766 students attend the school each year.

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.

John Jay Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at John Jay

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? John Jay offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

  • Master’s Degree

John Jay Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at John Jay is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. 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.

How Much Do Criminal Justice Graduates from John Jay Make?

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at John Jay is $37,563. This is 10% higher than $34,135, which is the national average for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

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Criminal Justice Student Demographics at John Jay

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

John Jay Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

52% Women
82% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The criminal justice program at John Jay awarded 1,619 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 48% of these degrees went to men with the other 52% going to women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 31% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from John Jay College of Criminal Justice with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 194
Black or African American 308
Hispanic or Latino 786
White 262
International Students 25
Other Races/Ethnicities 44

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

Concentrations Within Criminal Justice & Corrections

The following criminal justice concentations are available at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. The table shows all degrees awarded in this field awarded for all degree levels at John Jay College of Criminal Justice. A concentration may not be available for your level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded

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 NY, the home state for John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Occupation Jobs in NY Average Salary in NY
Accountants and Auditors 110,780 $96,300
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 53,560 $74,860
Correctional Officers and Jailers 35,460 $64,490
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 28,530 $58,050
Managers 16,600 $124,160

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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