Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Houston - Downtown

What traits are you looking for in a criminal justice school? To help you decide if University of Houston - Downtown is right for you, we've gathered the following information about the school's criminal justice program.

UH Downtown is located in Houston, Texas and has a total student population of 15,239.

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.

UH Downtown Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at UH Downtown

Don't have the time or the flexibility in your schedule to take traditional classes? Online courses may be the perfect solution for you. They allow independent learners to study when and where they want to while offering the rigor of in-person classes.

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UH Downtown Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

The criminal justice major at UH Downtown 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.

How Much Do Criminal Justice Graduates from UH Downtown Make?

The median salary of criminal justice students who receive their bachelor's degree at UH Downtown is $34,624. This is great news for graduates of the program, since this figure is 1% higher than the national average of $34,135 for all criminal justice bachelor's degree recipients.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Criminal Justice & Corrections Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 208 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice from UH Downtown. About 65% of these graduates were women and the other 35% were men.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 34% 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 University of Houston - Downtown with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	12
Black or African American	48
Hispanic or Latino	112
White	25
International Students	3
Other Races/Ethnicities	8

UH Downtown 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

If you plan to be a criminal justice major, you may want to focus your studies on one of the following concentrations. The completion numbers here include all graduates who receive any type of degree in this field from University of Houston - Downtown. 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 University of Houston - Downtown.

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 Nick22aku under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.