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Criminal Justice at Widener University

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Criminal Justice at Widener University

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

Widener is located in Chester, Pennsylvania and has a total student population of 6,150.

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.

Widener Criminal Justice Degrees Available

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Widener Criminal Justice Rankings

The criminal justice major at Widener 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 Widener

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

Widener Criminal Justice Bachelor’s Program

67% Women
7% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 15 criminal justice majors earned their bachelor's degree from Widener. Of these graduates, 33% were men and 67% were women.

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About 80% of those who receive a bachelor's degree in criminal justice at Widener 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 Widener University with a bachelor's in criminal justice.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 0
Black or African American 0
Hispanic or Latino 0
White 12
International Students 2
Other Races/Ethnicities 1

Widener 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 PA, the home state for Widener University.

Occupation Jobs in PA Average Salary in PA
Managers 11,060 $126,290
Police and Detective Supervisors 3,350 $92,170
Criminal Justice and Law Enforcement Professors 760 $83,960

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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