2025 Best Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi

Criminal Justice is of the hottest bachelor's degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #28 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Mississippi to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice students pursuing a bachelor's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 129 bachelor's degrees in criminal justice to qualified students.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to criminal justice students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of criminal justice students who choose to seek a bachelor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminal justice related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminal justice students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree Schools in Mississippi ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Criminal Justice in Mississippi

Explore the top ranked colleges and universities for criminal justice students seeking a a bachelor's degree.

Top Mississippi Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminal Justice

1

Mississippi College
Clinton, MS

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

16 Annual Graduates

Mississippi College is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Located in the suburb of Clinton, MC is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in criminal justice from Mississippi College

2

University of Mississippi
University, MS

Master's Degree Highest Degree Type

110 Annual Graduates

University of Mississippi is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in criminal justice. Located in the town of University, Ole Miss is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in criminal justice from University of Mississippi

Best Criminal Justice Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Criminal Justice Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	492	188
Tennessee	460	690
North Carolina	453	293
Georgia	453	292
Virginia	421	377
South Carolina	370	504
Kentucky	331	325
Alabama	320	199
Louisiana	306	1
Arkansas	294	70
West Virginia	223	35

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Rankings in Majors Related to Criminal Justice

One of 21 majors within the Criminal Justice & Corrections area of study, Criminal Justice has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Criminal Justice

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice Studies	154
Criminal Justice & Police Science	12

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.