Criminal Justice Studies at University of Houston - Downtown

If you plan to study criminal justice studies, take a look at what University of Houston - Downtown has to offer and decide if the program is a good match for you. Get started with the following essential facts.

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 Studies section at the bottom of this page.

UH Downtown Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

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.

For those who are interested in distance learning, UH Downtown does offer online courses in criminal justice studies for the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

UH Downtown Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at UH Downtown 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 UH Downtown

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

UH Downtown Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

The criminal justice studies program at UH Downtown awarded 208 bachelor's degrees in 2020-2021. About 35% of these degrees went to men with the other 65% going to women.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 33% more racial-ethnic minorities in its criminal justice studies 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 studies.

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 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 TX, the home state for University of Houston - Downtown.

Occupation	Jobs in TX	Average Salary in TX
Police and Detective Supervisors	6,400	$87,840
Correctional Officer Supervisors	4,000	$52,500
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	1,220	$68,040

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.