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Criminal Justice & Corrections at Peirce College

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

Peirce is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and approximately 1,046 students attend the school each year. During the the most recent year for which data is available, 7 students received their associate's degree in criminal justice.

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

Peirce Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

  • Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice
  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at Peirce

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, Peirce does offer online courses in criminal justice for the following degree levels:

  • Associate’s Degree
  • Bachelor’s Degree

Peirce Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at Peirce is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice & Corrections. 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 Peirce

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Peirce College.

Peirce Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate’s Program

86% Women
100% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 14% of criminal justice associate's degrees went to men and 86% went to women.

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Peirce does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in criminal justice graduates 49% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Peirce College with a associate's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 6
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 0
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 0

Peirce Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

87% Women
80% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 15 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice & Corrections from Peirce in 2020-2021, 13% were men and 87% were women.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 29% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 11
Hispanic or Latino 1
White 2
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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

Concentrations Within Criminal Justice & Corrections

If you plan to be a criminal justice major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Peirce College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration Annual Degrees Awarded

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 PA, the home state for Peirce College.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Accountants and Auditors 51,720 $75,250
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers 27,850 $66,600
Child, Family, and School Social Workers 20,160 $43,680
Computer Workers 19,010 $87,040
Correctional Officers and Jailers 16,850 $54,140

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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