2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
93Colleges in the Southeast Region
9,121Bachelor's Degrees
Ranked #12 in popularity, criminal justice studies is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
In 2024, College Factual analyzed 93 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 9,121 bachelor's degrees in criminal justice studies to qualified students.
Choosing a Great Criminal Justice Studies School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of criminal justice studies for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality criminal justice studies program can vary widely even among the top schools. Below we explain some of the most important factors to consider before making your choice:
Overall Quality Is a Must
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges 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 bachelor'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 full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for criminal justice studies students working on their bachelor's degree.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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Featured Criminal Justice Studies Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.
Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Criminal Justice Studies in the Southeast Region
Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for criminal justice studies students seeking a a bachelor's degree. Only those schools that rank in the top 15% of all the schools we analyze get awarded with a place on this list.
14 Top Southeast Region Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice Studies
Here are some additional great schools for Criminal Justice Studies students in the Southeast Region that almost earned our Best Criminal Justice Studies Bachelor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region award.
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.