2025 Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Schools in Missouri
3Colleges in Missouri
320Police 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 3 schools in Missouri to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice & police science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 320 degrees in criminal justice & police science annually.
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 the program you select can have a significant impact on your future, we've developed a number of rankings, including this Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Schools in Missouri list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
In addition to College Factual's rankings, you may want to take a look at College Combat, our unique tool that lets you pit your favorite schools head-to-head and compare how they rate on factors that most interest you.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Missouri
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.
Missouri Southern State University is a wonderful decision for students interested in a degree in criminal justice & police science. Located in the small city of Joplin, Missouri Southern is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 28th out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 133 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at Missouri Southern in the most recent data year.
Every student pursuing a degree in criminal justice & police science has to check out Saint Louis Community College. Saint Louis Community College is a large public college located in the large suburb of Bridgeton. A Best Colleges rank of #1278 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Saint Louis Community College is a great college overall.
There were about 27 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at Saint Louis Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
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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 is difficult to beat Mineral Area College if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice & police science. MAC is a small public college located in the town of Park Hills. This college ranks 31st out of 48 colleges for overall quality in the state of Missouri.
There were approximately 35 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at MAC 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.
