2025 Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Schools in Indiana
4Colleges in Indiana
103Police Science Degrees Awarded
Ranked #74 in popularity, criminal justice & police science is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 4 schools in Indiana to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice & police science students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 103 degrees in criminal justice & police science to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Criminal Justice & Police Science School
Your choice of criminal justice & police science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice & police science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Pick Your Criminal Justice & Police Science Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Schools in Indiana ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Indiana
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the police science degree levels they offer.
It is hard to beat Purdue University Global if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice & police science. Located in the small city of West Lafayette, Purdue University Global is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #284 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Purdue University Global is a great university overall.
There were about 11 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at Purdue University Global in the most recent data year.
Vincennes University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in criminal justice & police science. Vincennes University is a large public university located in the remote town of Vincennes. A Best Colleges rank of #365 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Vincennes University is a great university overall.
There were approximately 42 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at Vincennes University in the most recent data year.
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Explore the demands, functions, goals and leadership opportunities in the modern police agency with this specialized online bachelor's from Southern New Hampshire University.
It's difficult to beat University of Indianapolis if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice & police science. UIndy is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the city of Indianapolis. This university ranks 15th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 35 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at UIndy in the most recent year we have data available.
The bars on the spread charts above show the distribution of the schools on this list +/- one standard deviation from the mean.
The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).
Your choice of criminal justice & police science school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice & police science schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
