2025 Best Criminal Justice Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona
3
Colleges in Arizona
1,180
Bachelor's Degrees
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 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 1,180 bachelor's degrees in criminal justice during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Criminal Justice School for Your Bachelor's Degree
Your choice of criminal justice for getting your bachelor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality criminal justice program can vary widely even among the top schools. When choosing a school we recommend considering some of the following factors:
Quality Overall Is Important
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 much a school focuses on criminal justice students vs. other majors.
- Major Demand - How many other criminal justice 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 related body.
Our full 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.
More Ways to Rank Criminal Justice Schools
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 Bachelor's Degree Schools in Arizona list to help you make the college decision.
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.
When you have some time, check it out - you may want to bookmark the link so you don't forget it.
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Featured Criminal Justice Programs
Learn about start dates, transferring credits, availability of financial aid, and more by contacting the universities below.