Criminal Justice and Fire Protection
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Early Career Income
$65,518
Lifetime Income
$3.32M
Unemployment rate
2.9%
Female share
42.9%
Occupation concentration
39.8%
in top 10 occupations
Remote work share
13.1%
% who double-major
13.7%
BA Graduates from 2024
53,458
-4.1% vs 2023
How Criminal Justice and Fire Protection compares
Ranked against every other major nationally.
34th
percentile
Lifetime income
Higher than 34% of majors
44th
percentile
Unemployment
Lower unemployment than 44% of majors
31st
percentile
Occupation concentration
More concentrated than 31% of majors
Top occupations
See the Occupations and Industries tabs for full breakdowns, Double Majors for the most common second fields of degree, and Earnings for the trajectory by age, and Trends for degree production over time.
Degree titles included in this major
These detailed majors are included in the statistics for Criminal Justice and Fire Protection.
- Criminal Justice and Corrections, General
- Corrections
- Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration
- Criminal Justice/Safety Studies
- Criminal Justice/Police Science
- Security and Loss Prevention Services
- Juvenile Corrections
- Securities Services Administration/Management
- Corrections Administration
- Law Enforcement Investigation and Interviewing
- Law Enforcement Record-Keeping and Evidence Management
- Critical Incident Response/Special Police Operations
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- Protective Services Operations
- Suspension and Debarment Investigation
- Maritime Law Enforcement
- Cultural/Archaelogical Resources Protection
- Corrections and Criminal Justice, Other
- Fire Prevention and Safety Technology/Technician
- Fire Services Administration
- Fire Science/Fire-fighting
- Fire Systems Technology
- Fire/Arson Investigation and Prevention
- Wildland/Forest Firefighting and Investigation
- Fire Protection, Other
- Homeland Security
- Crisis/Emergency/Disaster Management
- Critical Infrastructure Protection
- Terrorism and Counterterrorism Operations
- Homeland Security, Other
- Security Science and Technology, General
- Criminalistics and Criminal Science
- Cyber/Computer Forensics and Counterterrorism
- Cybersecurity Defense Strategy/Policy
- Financial Forensics and Fraud Investigation
- Forensic Science and Technology
- Geospatial Intelligence
- Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis
- Security Science and Technology, Other
- Homeland Security, Law Enforcement, Firefighting and Related Protective Services, Other
Based on federal labor and demographic data. Data source & methodology