Criminal Justice & Corrections at Southern New Hampshire University

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

SNHU is located in Manchester, New Hampshire and has a total student population of 134,345. During the 2020-2021 academic year, 222 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.

SNHU Criminal Justice & Corrections Degrees Available

• Master’s Degree in Criminal Justice

Online Classes Are Available at SNHU

If you are a working student or have a busy schedule, you may want to consider taking online classes. While these classes used to be mostly populated by returning adults, more and more traditional students are turning to this option.

Are you one of the many who prefer to take online classes? SNHU offers distance education options for criminal justice at the following degree levels:

• Associate’s Degree
• Master’s Degree

SNHU Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings

Criminal Justice Student Demographics at SNHU

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

SNHU Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Program

Of the 222 criminal justice students who graduated with a master's degree in 2020-2021 from SNHU, about 37% were men and 63% were women.

Of the students who received a criminal justice master's degree from SNHU, 59% were white. This is above average for this degree on the natiowide level.

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

Race/Ethnicity	Number of Students
Asian	1
Black or African American	53
Hispanic or Latino	17
White	131
International Students	0
Other Races/Ethnicities	20

Related Majors

• Homeland Security

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 NH, the home state for Southern New Hampshire University.

Occupation	Jobs in NH	Average Salary in NH
Accountants and Auditors	5,300	$72,690
Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officers	3,100	$58,120
Correctional Officers and Jailers	1,110	$47,860
Computer Workers	1,010	$112,440
Managers	950	$123,580

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 Kylejtod at en.wikipedia under License

More about our data sources and methodologies.