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Syracuse University BS in Criminal Justice & Corrections

The main focus area for this major is Forensic Science & Technology. For more details on this concentration, visit its profile page.

Criminal Justice & Corrections is a major offered under the homeland security, law enforcement and firefighting program of study at Syracuse University. We’ve gathered data and other essential information about the bachelor’s degree program in criminal justice, such as diversity of students, how many students graduated in recent times, and more.

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Rankings for the Syracuse BS in Criminal Justice

If you're having trouble deciding which school is best for you, you may want to check out our many college rankings. The criminal justice major at Syracuse 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.

Here are some of the other rankings for Syracuse.

Ranking Type Rank
Most Popular Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections 525
Most Focused Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections 1,590

How Much Does a Bachelor’s in Criminal Justice from Syracuse Cost?

$52,255 Average Tuition and Fees (In-State)
$27,000 Average Student Debt

Syracuse Undergraduate Tuition and Fees

In 2018-2019, the average part-time undergraduate tuition at Syracuse was $2,274 per credit hour for both in-state and out-of-state students. The following table shows the average full-time tuition and fees for undergraduates.

In State Out of State
Tuition $50,616 $50,616
Fees $1,639 $1,639
Books and Supplies $1,536 $1,536
On Campus Room and Board $15,910 $15,910
On Campus Other Expenses $1,774 $1,774

Learn more about Syracuse tuition and fees.

Syracuse Criminal Justice BS Student Debt

One factor in determining the overall cost in a degree is to consider how much in student loans you’ll have to take out. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Syracuse in Criminal Justice walked away with an average of $27,000 in student debt. That is 3% lower than the national average of $27,924.

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Does Syracuse Offer an Online BS in Criminal Justice?

Syracuse does not offer an online option for its criminal justice bachelor’s degree program at this time. To see if the school offers distance learning options in other areas, visit the Syracuse Online Learning page.

Syracuse Bachelor’s Student Diversity for Criminal Justice

43 Bachelor's Degrees Awarded
81.4% Women
34.9% Racial-Ethnic Minorities*
During the 2018-2019 academic year, there were 43 bachelor’s degrees in criminal justice handed out to qualified students. The charts and tables below give more information about these students.

Male-to-Female Ratio

Women made up around 81.4% of the criminal justice students who took home a bachelor’s degree in 2018-2019. This is higher than the nationwide number of 52.3%.

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Racial-Ethnic Diversity

Around 34.9% of criminal justice bachelor’s degree recipients at Syracuse in 2018-2019 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 49%.

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Race/Ethnicity Number of Students
Asian 2
Black or African American 5
Hispanic or Latino 4
Native American or Alaska Native 0
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 0
White 24
International Students 3
Other Races/Ethnicities 5

BS in Criminal Justice Focus Areas at Syracuse

Criminal Justice & Corrections students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.

Focus Area Annual Graduates
Forensic Science & Technology 43

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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