2025 Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Utah
3Colleges in Utah
401Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Awarded
Ranked #16 in popularity, criminal justice studies 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 Utah to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 401 degrees in criminal justice studies to qualified students.
The criminal justice studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
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 Studies Schools in Utah list, to help you choose the best school for you.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the criminal justice studies degree levels they offer.
Weber State University is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice studies. Located in the city of Ogden, WSU is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #389 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means WSU is a great university overall.
There were about 168 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at WSU in the most recent data year.
Salt Lake Community College is a great option for students interested in a degree in criminal justice studies. Salt Lake Community College is a fairly large public college located in the large suburb of Salt Lake City. This college ranks 5th out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 111 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Salt Lake Community College in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in criminal justice studies has to check out Dixie State University. Dixie State College is a fairly large public university located in the midsize city of Saint George. This university ranks 10th out of 11 schools for overall quality in the state of Utah.
There were about 69 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Dixie State College 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).
The criminal justice studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
