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Criminal Justice at Santa Monica College

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Criminal Justice at Santa Monica College

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

SMC is located in Santa Monica, California and approximately 25,948 students attend the school each year. During the the most recent year for which data is available, 46 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 section at the bottom of this page.

SMC Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Associate’s Degree in Criminal Justice

SMC Criminal Justice Rankings

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at SMC

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

SMC Criminal Justice Associate’s Program

52% Women
80% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
For the most recent academic year available, 48% of criminal justice associate's degrees went to men and 52% went to women.

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SMC does a better job with serving racial-ethnic minorities than the typical school does. Its associate's program in criminal justice graduates 23% more racial-ethnic minorities than the nationwide average.*

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

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 4
Black or African American 1
Hispanic or Latino 32
White 7
International Students 1
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

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 CA, the home state for Santa Monica College.

Occupation Jobs in CA Average Salary in CA
Managers 66,300 $143,350
Police and Detective Supervisors 4,950 $154,430
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 1,260 $111,240

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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