Criminal Justice & Corrections at Texas Woman’s University

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

TWU is located in Denton, Texas and approximately 16,433 students attend the school each year.

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.

TWU Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

TWU Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at TWU 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 TWU Criminal Justice Graduates

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at TWU is $36,520. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 7% higher than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at TWU

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at Texas Woman’s University.

TWU Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 31 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from TWU. About 90% of these graduates were women and the other 10% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 23% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice bachelor's program than the national average.*

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	8
Hispanic or Latino	15
White	8
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	0

TWU 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

The following criminal justice concentations are available at Texas Woman's University. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from Texas Woman's University. 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 TX, the home state for Texas Woman's University.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Accountants and Auditors	115,270	$80,200
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	60,260	$61,870
Computer Workers	25,620	$90,290
Managers	20,710	$122,130
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	19,510	$48,920

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 Michael Barera under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.