Criminal Justice & Corrections at Georgia State University

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

Georgia State is located in Atlanta, Georgia and has a total student population of 36,360. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 students received their master's degree in criminal justice.

Want to know more about the career opportunities in this field? Check out the Careers in Criminal Justice & Corrections section at the bottom of this page.

Georgia State Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice
• Doctorate Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at Georgia State

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? Georgia State offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

• Bachelor’s Degree

Georgia State Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

There were 4 students who received their doctoral degrees in criminal justice, making the school the #8 most popular school in the United States for this category of students.

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at Georgia State

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

Georgia State Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Program

During the 2020-2021 academic year, 2 criminal justice majors earned their master's degree from Georgia State. Of these graduates, 50% were men and 50% were women.

In the criminal justice master's program at this school, racial-ethnic minorities make up 50% of degree recipients. That is 7% better than the national average.*

The following table and chart show the race/ethnicity for students who recently graduated from Georgia State University with a master's in criminal justice.

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

Related Majors

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 GA, the home state for Georgia State University.

Occupation	Jobs in GA	Average Salary in GA
Accountants and Auditors	37,200	$75,930
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	22,410	$42,990
Computer Workers	21,500	$90,140
Correctional Officers and Jailers	15,500	$34,290
Managers	14,480	$118,060

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 Jayingram11 under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.