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Criminal Justice at University of South Carolina - Upstate

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Criminal Justice at University of South Carolina - Upstate

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

USC Upstate is located in Spartanburg, South Carolina and has a total student population of 6,038.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice section at the bottom of this page.

USC Upstate Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

USC Upstate Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at USC Upstate is not ranked on College Factual’s Best Colleges and Universities for Criminal Justice. 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 USC Upstate

Take a look at the following statistics related to the make-up of the criminal justice majors at University of South Carolina - Upstate.

USC Upstate Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

73% Women
47% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
Of the 66 students who earned a bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from USC Upstate in 2020-2021, 27% were men and 73% were women.

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About 53% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at USC Upstate 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 South Carolina - Upstate with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 1
Black or African American 21
Hispanic or Latino 6
White 35
International Students 0
Other Races/Ethnicities 3

USC Upstate also has a doctoral program available in criminal justice. In 2021, 0 student graduated with a doctor's degree in this field.

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 SC, the home state for University of South Carolina - Upstate.

Occupation Jobs in SC Average Salary in SC
Police and Detective Supervisors 1,770 $61,160
Managers 1,760 $100,890
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 130 $77,920

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.

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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