Criminal Justice Studies at Valdosta State University

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

VSU is located in Valdosta, Georgia and approximately 12,304 students attend the school each year.

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.

VSU Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Online Classes Are Available at VSU

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

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

VSU Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at VSU 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 VSU

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

VSU Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

In the 2020-2021 academic year, 65 students earned a bachelor's degree in criminal justice studies from VSU. About 55% of these graduates were women and the other 45% were men. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at VSU since its program graduates 1% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 10% 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 Valdosta State University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	28
Hispanic or Latino	7
White	25
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	5

VSU 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 GA, the home state for Valdosta State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Police and Detective Supervisors	5,840	$66,680
Correctional Officer Supervisors	2,240	$47,090
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	130	$63,790

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 Jadvii under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.