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Criminal Justice at Missouri Southern State University

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Criminal Justice at Missouri Southern State University

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

Missouri Southern is located in Joplin, Missouri and has a total student population of 5,045.

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.

Missouri Southern Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Undergrad Certificate in Criminal Justice (1 - 4 Years)
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Missouri Southern Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at Missouri Southern 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 Missouri Southern

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

Missouri Southern Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

46% Women
25% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
The criminal justice program at Missouri Southern awarded 72 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 54% of these degrees went to men with the other 46% going to women.

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About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Missouri Southern 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 Missouri Southern State University with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 6
Hispanic or Latino 8
White 52
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 4

Missouri Southern 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 MO, the home state for Missouri Southern State University.

Occupation Jobs in MO Average Salary in MO
Managers 3,980 $97,820
Police and Detective Supervisors 2,220 $78,750
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 230 $85,710

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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