The main focus area for this major is Criminology. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.
Criminology is a major offered under the social sciences program of study at Stonehill College. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in criminology, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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In order to help students and their parents find the best school for them, we have created several different types of college rankings, which are updated yearly. In College Factual's most recent rankings for the best schools for criminology majors, Stonehill came in at #4. This puts it in the top 5% of the country in this field of study. It is also ranked #1 in Massachusetts.
Here are some of the other rankings for Stonehill.
Part-time undergraduates at Stonehill paid an average of $1,555 per credit hour in 2019-2020. This tuition was the same for both in-state and out-of-state students. Information about average full-time undergraduate tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
In State | Out of State | |
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Tuition | $46,642 | $46,642 |
Books and Supplies | $893 | $893 |
On Campus Room and Board | $16,620 | $16,620 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $1,607 | $1,607 |
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One way to think about how much a school will cost is to look at how much in student loans that you have to take out to get your degree. Criminology students who received their bachelor’s degree at Stonehill took out an average of $26,000 in student loans. That is 11% higher than the national average of $23,325.
The median early career salary of criminology students who receive their bachelor’s degree from Stonehill is $39,009 per year. That is 25% higher than the national average of $31,254.
Online degrees for the Stonehill criminology bachelor’s degree program are not available at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Stonehill Online Learning page.
Of the students who received their bachelor’s degree in criminology in 2019-2020, 59.7% of them were women. This is in the same ballpark of the nationwide number of 60.2%.
Of those graduates who received a bachelor’s degree in criminology at Stonehill in 2019-2020, 15.3% were racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 46%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 6 |
Hispanic or Latino | 1 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 59 |
International Students | 0 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 5 |
Criminology students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Criminology | 72 |
You may also be interested in one of these majors related to criminology.
Related Major | Annual Graduates |
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Economics | 22 |
Political Science & Government | 28 |
Sociology | 19 |
*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.