2025 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Nevada
3Colleges in Nevada
926Criminal Justice Degrees Awarded
$40,755Avg Early-Career Salary
Criminal Justice & Corrections is of the hottest degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #7 most popular major in the country. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Nevada to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of criminal justice & corrections. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 926 degrees in criminal justice & corrections annually.
Choosing a Great Criminal Justice & Corrections School
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 & Corrections rankings. We derive our Best Overall Criminal Justice & Corrections 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.
Criminal Justice & Corrections Rankings by Degree Level
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Nevada ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
You can also filter this list by location to find schools closer to you.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Nevada
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the criminal justice degree levels they offer.
It is hard to beat College of Southern Nevada if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice & corrections. Located in the city of Las Vegas, CSN is a public college with a very large student population. This college ranks 3rd out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of Nevada.
There were roughly 241 criminal justice & corrections students who graduated with this degree at CSN in the most recent year we have data available. After graduating, criminal justice degree recipients generally earn about $26,301 in their early careers.
It is hard to beat University of Nevada - Las Vegas if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice & corrections. Located in the midsize city of Las Vegas, UNLV is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #371 out of 2,152 schools nationwide means UNLV is a great university overall.
There were approximately 343 criminal justice & corrections students who graduated with this degree at UNLV in the most recent year we have data available. Soon after graduating, criminal justice degree recipients generally earn about $37,639 in their early careers.
It's difficult to beat Nevada State College if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice & corrections. NSC is a medium-sized public college located in the rural area of Henderson. This college ranks 7th out of 8 schools for overall quality in the state of Nevada.
There were approximately 50 criminal justice & corrections students who graduated with this degree at NSC in the most recent year we have data available. Graduates who receive their degree from the criminal justice program make an average of $36,363 in the first couple years of their career.
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 & Corrections rankings. We derive our Best Overall Criminal Justice & Corrections School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
