2025 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island

Ranked #4 in popularity, criminal justice & corrections is one of the most sought-after associate degree programs in the nation. 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 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 55 associate degrees in criminal justice & corrections during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

• Best Associate Degree Schools List

Average Early-Career Salaries

To determine the overall quality of a graduate school, one factor we look at is the average early-career salary of those receiving their associate degree from the school. After all, your associate degree won't mean much if it doesn't help you find a job that will help you earn a living.

Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on criminal justice & corrections students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of criminal justice & corrections students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for criminal justice & corrections to pay back their student loans after receiving their associate degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminal justice & corrections related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminal justice & corrections students working on their associate degree.

More Ways to Rank Criminal Justice & Corrections 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 & Corrections Associate Degree Schools in Rhode Island list to help you make the college decision.

Best Schools for Associate Students to Study Criminal Justice & Corrections in Rhode Island

Learn about the top ranked colleges and universities for criminal justice & corrections students seeking a an associate degree.

Top Rhode Island Schools for an Associate in Criminal Justice

1

New England Institute of Technology
East Greenwich, RI

17 Annual Graduates

New England Institute of Technology is one of the finest schools in the country for getting an associate degree in criminal justice & corrections. Located in the suburb of East Greenwich, New England Tech is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.More information about a associate in criminal justice & corrections from New England Institute of Technology

2

Community College of Rhode Island
Warwick, RI

33 Annual Graduates

$30,219 Median Starting Salary

Community College of Rhode Island is one of the best schools in the country for getting an associate degree in criminal justice & corrections. CCRI is a fairly large public college located in the city of Warwick.

Associate students who receive their degree from the criminal justice program make around $30,219 in their early career salary.

More information about a associate in criminal justice & corrections from Community College of Rhode Island

Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	137	654
Connecticut	101	360
New Hampshire	80	359
Maine	69	104
Vermont	58	12

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Criminal Justice & Corrections Related Rankings by Major

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of 4 different types of Homeland Security, Law Enforcement & Firefighting programs to choose from.

Criminal Justice Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminal Justice & Police Science	33
Criminal Justice Studies	17
Criminal Justice	5

Most Popular Majors Related to Criminal Justice

Related Major	Annual Graduates
Fire Protection	10

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.