Criminal Justice is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #27 most popular major in the country. So, there are lots of possibilities to explore when you're trying to determine where you want to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Criminal Justice Schools in Indiana ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 132 degrees in criminal justice annually.
The criminal justice program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice rankings. We derive our Best Overall Criminal Justice School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
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.
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 Schools in Indiana list to help you make the college decision.
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If you aren't interested in a particular degree level and want to know which schools are the overall best at delivering an education for the criminal justice degrees they offer, see the list below.
Every student who is interested in criminal justice has to look into Purdue University Global. Purdue University Global is a very large public university located in the city of West Lafayette. A Best Colleges rank of #284 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means Purdue University Global is a great university overall.
There were about 67 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Purdue University Global in the most recent data year.
Indiana University - East is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in criminal justice. Located in the town of Richmond, IU East is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 35th out of 41 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were roughly 52 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at IU East in the most recent data year.
Indiana University - Kokomo is a great option for students pursuing a degree in criminal justice. IU Kokomo is a small public university located in the small city of Kokomo. This university ranks 28th out of 41 colleges for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 2 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at IU Kokomo in the most recent data year.
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 program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice rankings. We derive our Best Overall Criminal Justice School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
