2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
7
Colleges in the Southeast Region
29
Doctor's Degrees
If you plan on getting your doctor's degree in
criminal justice studies, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #150 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
College Factual looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 29 doctor's degrees in criminal justice studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Criminal Justice Studies School for Your Doctor's Degree
The criminal justice studies doctor's degree program you select can have a big impact on your future. Important measures of a quality criminal justice studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.
Other Factors We Consider
In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:
- Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to criminal justice studies students as compared to other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other criminal justice studies students want to attend this school to pursue a doctor's degree.
- Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
- Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminal justice studies related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for criminal justice studies students working on their doctor's degree.
One Size Does Not Fit All
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Criminal Justice Studies Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list to help you make the college decision.