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Criminal Justice at Georgia Southwestern State University

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Criminal Justice at Georgia Southwestern State University

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

GSW is located in Americus, Georgia and has a total student population of 3,162.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice section at the bottom of this page.

GSW Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at GSW

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

  • Bachelor’s Degree

GSW Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at GSW is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice. 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 Student Demographics at GSW

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Georgia Southwestern State University.

GSW Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

50% Women
50% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 10 criminal justice majors earned their bachelor's degree from GSW. Of these graduates, 50% were men and 50% were women.

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 4
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 5
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

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

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 GA, the home state for Georgia Southwestern State University.

Occupation Jobs in GA Average Salary in GA
Managers 14,480 $118,060
Police and Detective Supervisors 5,840 $66,680
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 130 $63,790

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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