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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Florida State University

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Criminal Justice & Police Science at Florida State University

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

Florida State is located in Tallahassee, Florida and approximately 43,569 students attend the school each year.

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.

Florida State Criminal Justice & Police Science Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Police Science

Florida State Criminal Justice & Police Science Rankings

The police science major at Florida State 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 Florida State

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

Florida State Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Program

63% Women
34% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The police science program at Florida State awarded 38 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 37% of these degrees went to men with the other 63% going to women. The typical police science bachelor's degree program is made up of only 37% women. So female students are more repesented at Florida State since its program graduates 27% more women than average.

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About 66% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in police science at Florida State 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 Florida State University with a bachelor's in police science.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 7
White 25
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 2

Florida State 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 FL, the home state for Florida State University.

Occupation Jobs in FL Average Salary in FL
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 37,650 $59,610
Detectives and Criminal Investigators 6,600 $76,560
Private Detectives and Investigators 2,860 $41,850
Bailiffs 1,570 $47,450
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 1,030 $68,780

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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