Criminal Justice Studies at Shorter University

Every criminal justice studies school has its own distinct culture and strengths. We've pulled together some statistics and other details to help you see how the criminal justice studies program at Shorter University stacks up to those at other schools.

Shorter is located in Rome, Georgia and approximately 1,410 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.

Shorter Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at Shorter

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.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? Shorter offers distance education options for criminal justice studies at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Shorter Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at Shorter 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 Shorter

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

Shorter Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 12 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies from Shorter. About 50% of these graduates were women and the other 50% were men. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at Shorter since its program graduates 7% more men than average.

About 58% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies at Shorter 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 Shorter University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	7
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

Shorter 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 GA, the home state for Shorter University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Police and Detective Supervisors	5,840	$66,680
Correctional Officer Supervisors	2,240	$47,090
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	130	$63,790

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 Thomson200 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.