Criminal Justice Studies at Wheeling University

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

Wheeling University is located in Wheeling, West Virginia and approximately 857 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.

Wheeling University Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Available

• Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice Studies

Wheeling University Criminal Justice Studies Rankings

The criminal justice studies major at Wheeling University 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 Wheeling University

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

Wheeling University Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 9 criminal justice studies majors earned their bachelor's degree from Wheeling University. Of these graduates, 67% were men and 33% were women. The typical criminal justice studies bachelor's degree program is made up of only 43% men. So male students are more repesented at Wheeling University since its program graduates 23% more men than average.

Prospective students may be interested in knowing that this school graduates 4% 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 Wheeling University with a bachelor's in criminal justice studies.

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	0
Black or African American	3
Hispanic or Latino	1
White	4
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	1

Wheeling University 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 WV, the home state for Wheeling University.

Occupation	Jobs in WV	Average Salary in WV
Police and Detective Supervisors	240	$66,840
Correctional Officer Supervisors	150	$61,000
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors	70	$43,400

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 Ibagli under License

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