Criminal Justice & Corrections at Southwestern College

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

SC is located in Winfield, Kansas and has a total student population of 1,413.

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.

SC Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Basic Certificate in Criminal Justice (Less Than 1 Year)
• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at SC

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? SC offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SC Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at SC 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.

Earnings of SC Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at SC is $50,283. This is 47% higher than $34,135, which is the national average for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at SC

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

SC Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 44 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from SC. About 14% of these graduates were women and the other 86% were men.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	4
Hispanic or Latino	4
White	18
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	17

SC 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

Criminal Justice & Corrections majors may want to concentrate their studies in one of these areas. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Southwestern College. Some of these focus areas may not be available for your degree level.

Concentration	Annual Degrees Awarded

Related Majors

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 KS, the home state for Southwestern College.

Occupation	Jobs in KS	Average Salary in KS
Accountants and Auditors	12,320	$66,530
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	5,920	$48,350
Correctional Officers and Jailers	3,470	$36,550
Managers	2,420	$102,560
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	2,190	$42,510

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 Rschmeichel under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.