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 3 schools in Arizona to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 1,653 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.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice Schools in Arizona ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that 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 take a look at Arizona State University - Tempe. ASU - Tempe is a fairly large public university located in the city of Tempe. This university ranks 2nd out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were roughly 349 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Tempe in the most recent year we have data available.
Arizona State University - Skysong is a good choice for students interested in a degree in criminal justice. Located in the medium-sized city of Scottsdale, ASU - Skysong is a public university with a very large student population. This university ranks 8th out of 26 colleges for overall quality in the state of Arizona.
There were approximately 401 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at ASU - Skysong in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in criminal justice has to check out University of Phoenix - Arizona. UOPX - Arizona is a fairly large private for-profit university located in the city of Phoenix. A Best Colleges rank of #83 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means UOPX - Arizona is a great university overall.
There were about 810 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at UOPX - Arizona 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.
