The main focus area for this major is Criminal Justice Studies. 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 Iowa State University. We’ve pulled together some essential information you should know about the bachelor’s degree program in criminal justice, including how many students graduate each year, the ethnic diversity of these students, and more.
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Navigating today's complex criminal justice system takes a great communicator with real–world perspective. The goal of SNHU's Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice is to get you there. You'll learn from professionals across all disciplines who bring their experience to the classroom.
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 Iowa State 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 Iowa State.
Out-of-state part-time undergraduates at Iowa State paid an average of $968 per credit hour in 2019-2020. The average for in-state students was $336 per credit hour. 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 | $8,042 | $23,230 |
Fees | $1,274 | $1,274 |
Books and Supplies | $1,001 | $1,001 |
On Campus Room and Board | $9,193 | $9,193 |
On Campus Other Expenses | $2,430 | $2,430 |
Learn more about Iowa State tuition and fees.
You may also want to consider how much in student loans you’ll need when thinking about the overall cost to attend a school. Students who received their bachelor’s degree at Iowa State in Criminal Justice walked away with an average of $21,500 in student debt. That is 23% lower than the national average of $27,924.
Iowa State 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 Iowa State Online Learning page.
About 55.1% of the students who received their BS in criminal justice in 2019-2020 were women. This is about the same as the countrywide number of 53.3%.
Around 23.6% of criminal justice bachelor’s degree recipients at Iowa State in 2019-2020 were awarded to racial-ethnic minorities*. This is lower than the nationwide number of 50%.
Race/Ethnicity | Number of Students |
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Asian | 1 |
Black or African American | 4 |
Hispanic or Latino | 22 |
Native American or Alaska Native | 0 |
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander | 0 |
White | 94 |
International Students | 2 |
Other Races/Ethnicities | 4 |
Criminal Justice & Corrections students may decide to major in one of the following focus areas.
Focus Area | Annual Graduates |
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Criminal Justice Studies | 127 |
*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.