Criminal Justice Studies at Rhode Island College

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

RIC is located in Providence, Rhode Island and approximately 7,072 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.

RIC Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

RIC Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at RIC 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 RIC

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

RIC Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 72 criminal justice studies majors earned their bachelor's degree from RIC. Of these graduates, 47% were men and 53% were women. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at RIC since its program graduates 4% more men than average.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	7
Hispanic or Latino	21
White	33
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	10

RIC 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 RI, the home state for Rhode Island College.

Occupation	Jobs in RI	Average Salary in RI
Police and Detective Supervisors	770	$83,830
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	70	$93,860

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 Arctichistorian01 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.