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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Eastern Illinois University

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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Eastern Illinois University

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

EIU is located in Charleston, Illinois and has a total student population of 8,626.

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.

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at EIU 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 EIU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the police science majors at Eastern Illinois University.

EIU Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
20% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 students graduated with a bachelor's degree in police science from EIU. About 33% were men and 67% were women. The typical police science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% women. So female students are more repesented at EIU since its program graduates 30% more women than average.

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About 67% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in police science at EIU 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 Eastern Illinois University with a bachelor's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 10
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

EIU also has a doctoral program available in police science. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 IL, the home state for Eastern Illinois University.

Occupation Jobs in IL Average Salary in IL
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 30,370 $75,720
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 2,940 $87,470
Bailiffs 1,550 $57,220
Private Detectives and Investigators 860 $60,630
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 600 $62,280

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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