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.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 7 schools in Alabama to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 487 degrees in criminal justice to qualified students.
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 Alabama 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.
Columbia Southern University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice. Columbia Southern University is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the town of Orange Beach. A Best Colleges rank of #109 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Columbia Southern University is a great university overall.
There were about 171 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Columbia Southern University in the most recent year we have data available.
Troy University is one of the finest schools in the United States for getting a degree in criminal justice. Located in the remote town of Troy, TROY is a public university with a fairly large student population. This university ranks 24th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were approximately 42 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at TROY in the most recent data year.
Faulkner University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice. Faulkner is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Montgomery. This university ranks 37th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were approximately 55 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Faulkner in the most recent data year.
University of South Alabama is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a degree in criminal justice. Located in the medium-sized city of Mobile, USA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #737 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means USA is a great university overall.
There were about 43 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at USA in the most recent data year.
Located in the city of Florence, UNA is a public university with a fairly large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1168 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNA is a great university overall.
There were roughly 52 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at UNA in the most recent year we have data available.
AAMU is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Normal. This university ranks 39th out of 42 colleges for overall quality in the state of Alabama.
There were roughly 46 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at AAMU 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.
