Criminal Justice Studies at Kent State University at Kent

If you are interested in studying criminal justice studies, you may want to check out the program at Kent State University at Kent. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

Kent State is located in Kent, Ohio and approximately 26,822 students attend the school each year.

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.

Kent State Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at Kent State

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.

Kent State does offer online education options in criminal justice studies for the following degree levels for those interested in distance learning:

• Master’s Degree

Kent State Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at Kent State 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 Kent State

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

Kent State Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

Of the 181 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice Studies from Kent State in 2020-2021, 40% were men and 60% were women.

About 79% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies at Kent 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 Kent State University at Kent with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	3
Black or African American	18
Hispanic or Latino	3
White	143
International Students	1
Other Races/Ethnicities	13

Kent State 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 OH, the home state for Kent State University at Kent.

Occupation	Jobs in OH	Average Salary in OH
Police and Detective Supervisors	2,810	$81,560
Correctional Officer Supervisors	590	$65,380
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	540	$81,480

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 JonRidinger under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.