2025 Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Hampshire

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in criminology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #53 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in New Hampshire to determine which ones were the best for criminology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 130 bachelor's degrees in criminology during the 2022-2023 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of bachelor's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their bachelor's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

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

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to criminology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other criminology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• 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 much debt criminology students go into to obtain their bachelor's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminology related body.

Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for criminology students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Hampshire ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

In addition to our rankings, you can take two colleges and compare them based on the criteria that matters most to you in our unique tool, College Combat. Test it out when you get a chance! You may also want to bookmark the link and share it with others who are trying to make the college decision.

Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Criminology in New Hampshire

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminology.

Top New Hampshire Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminology

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, NH

81 Annual Graduates

$39,814 Median Starting Salary

$44,349 Median Student Debt

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in criminology. Located in the fringe town of Durham, UNH is a public university with a fairly large student population.

Students who graduate with their bachelor's from the criminology program state that they receive average early career earnings of $39,814.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

2

Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH

49 Annual Graduates

$46,814 Median Starting Salary

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in criminology has to check out Saint Anselm College. Located in the midsize suburb of Manchester, St. Anselm College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Bachelor's recipients from the criminology program at Saint Anselm College make $3,500 more than the average college grad in this field shortly after graduation.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from Saint Anselm College

Best Criminology Colleges in the New England Region

Explore all the Best Criminology Colleges in the New England Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	238	234
Connecticut	183	179
Rhode Island	157	115
Maine	156	33
Vermont	155	1

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Criminology Related Rankings by Major

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Criminology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminology	130

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.