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.
In 2025, College Factual analyzed 3 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Criminal Justice Schools in Mississippi ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 245 degrees in criminal justice to qualified students.
Your choice of criminal justice school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Mississippi 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.
It's difficult to beat Mississippi College if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice. MC is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Clinton. This college ranks 5th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were about 35 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at MC in the most recent year we have data available.
Every student who is interested in criminal justice needs to look into University of Mississippi. Ole Miss is a fairly large public university located in the town of University. A Best Colleges rank of #550 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means Ole Miss is a great university overall.
There were roughly 172 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Ole Miss in the most recent data year.
Every student who is interested in criminal justice needs to check out Itawamba Community College. ICC is a small public college located in the rural area of Fulton. This college ranks 12th out of 24 schools for overall quality in the state of Mississippi.
There were approximately 29 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at ICC 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).
Your choice of criminal justice school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. 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.
