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Criminal Justice Studies at Sam Houston State University

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Criminal Justice Studies at Sam Houston State University

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

SHSU is located in Huntsville, Texas and approximately 21,912 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.

SHSU Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at SHSU

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, SHSU does offer online courses in criminal justice studies for the following degree levels:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • Master’s Degree

SHSU Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at SHSU 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 SHSU

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

SHSU Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

61% Women
56% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
In the 2020-2021 academic year, 851 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies from SHSU. About 61% of these graduates were women and the other 39% were men.

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Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice studies bachelor's program than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Sam Houston State University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 17
Black or African American 124
Hispanic or Latino 303
White 342
International Students 13
Other Races/Ethnicities 52

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

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 TX, the home state for Sam Houston State University.

Occupation Jobs in TX Average Salary in TX
Police and Detective Supervisors 6,400 $87,840
Correctional Officer Supervisors 4,000 $52,500
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 1,220 $68,040

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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