Saint Joseph's University Criminology (Bachelor's): Tuition, Graduate Salary, and Debt
- Bachelor's in Criminology
- Private nonprofit university
- Philadelphia, PA
- About 24 graduates a year
College Scorecard June 2026 release · BLS wages May 2025
The short answer
Saint Joseph's University criminology graduates earn more than graduates of most criminology programs nationally, $43,283 in their first year. The typical graduate leaves with $25,000 in federal loans, close to the national median of $25,000. It is one of the higher-paying criminology degrees in Pennsylvania.
How it compares
Each figure is the median for graduates of the program. The Pennsylvania and national columns are the medians across all criminology bachelor's programs that report the figure.
Five years out, Saint Joseph's University graduates earn more than the national figure and about $22,980 more than the Pennsylvania median.
Debt and first-year pay at every Pennsylvania criminology program
Programs in the upper left give graduates higher pay for less debt. Dashed lines mark the Pennsylvania medians.
Hover over or tap a dot to see the school. Only programs that report both earnings and debt are shown.
What graduates earn over time
Pay rises about 73% between the first and fifth year.
Year 1 and year 5 figures come from different graduating classes, so the growth rate is an estimate.
Paying back the loans
On a standard 10-year plan, the median debt means a payment of about $265 a month, or 7.3% of a graduate's typical monthly pay in the first year.
Where graduates work, and what the pay is worth
Prices in the Philadelphia area are about 3% above the national average, so a $43,283 salary here buys what about $42,205 buys in a typical US city.
Careers this field leads to
These are the jobs that the federal crosswalk from fields of study to occupations links to criminology, largest first. Pay is the median across all experience levels.
Sociologists
$106,030Median pay nationwide. Nationally, jobs are projected to grow 4% from 2025 to 2035, with about 200 openings a year. Typical education to start: master's degree.
About Saint Joseph's University
Criminology ranks 16th of 22 bachelor's programs at Saint Joseph's University by first-year earnings. The top three are Accounting ($69,807), Insurance ($66,523), and Finance ($66,072).
Other criminology bachelor's programs near Philadelphia
Common questions
The median graduate earns $43,283 one year after graduating and $74,682 five years after. The median across criminology bachelor's programs in Pennsylvania is $37,911.
The median federal loan balance is $25,000, which ranks the lowest of 7 criminology bachelor's programs in Pennsylvania. That works out to about $265 a month over 10 years.
On the numbers, yes for most students. Debt equals 58% of first-year earnings, against a national median of 64%.
About this data
- Earnings and debt only include students who received federal financial aid (grants or loans).
- Earnings only count graduates who were working and not enrolled in more school. Graduates who went straight to further study are not included.
- Debt only includes federal loans. Private loans and credit cards are not counted.
- Some schools with several campuses report one combined figure for all of them. We count each of those schools once, and leave them out of Pennsylvania comparisons when their main campus is in another state.
- Scorecard figures describe graduating classes from several years ago. BLS wages are from May 2025.
- School-level numbers like tuition, admission rate, and graduation rate are for the whole school, not the criminology program.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, College Scorecard, field of study and institution files, June 2026 release
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025
- Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment Projections 2025 to 2035
- Bureau of Economic Analysis, Regional Price Parities, 2024
- NCES, CIP 2020 to SOC 2018 crosswalk, and IPEDS institution directory, 2024