Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Alaska Fairbanks

If you are interested in studying criminal justice and corrections, you may want to check out the program at University of Alaska Fairbanks. The following information will help you decide if it is a good fit for you.

UAF is located in Fairbanks, Alaska and approximately 6,813 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.

UAF Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at UAF

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UAF Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at UAF 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.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UAF

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

UAF Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

Of the 39 students who graduated with a bachelor’s in criminal justice from UAF in 2021, 44% were men and 56% were women.

About 72% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at UAF 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 University of Alaska Fairbanks with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	1
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	28
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	3

UAF 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 University of Alaska Fairbanks. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Alaska Fairbanks. 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 AK, the home state for University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Occupation	Jobs in AK	Average Salary in AK
Accountants and Auditors	2,090	$82,920
Child, Family, and School Social Workers	1,480	$48,970
Managers	1,410	$118,650
Correctional Officers and Jailers	1,120	$64,670
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	1,070	$88,030

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 Burntorange72 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.