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Criminal Justice at Michigan State University

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

Michigan State is located in East Lansing, Michigan and has a total student population of 49,695.

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.

Michigan State Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Michigan State Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at Michigan State 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 Michigan State

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

Michigan State Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

60% Women
29% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 158 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from Michigan State. About 60% of these graduates were women and the other 40% were men.

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About 70% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Michigan 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 Michigan State University with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 20
Hispanic or Latino 15
White 110
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 9

Michigan State 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 MI, the home state for Michigan State University.

Occupation Jobs in MI Average Salary in MI
Managers 6,370 $98,780
Police and Detective Supervisors 2,380 $80,060
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 430 $79,490

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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