If you pursue a degree in criminal justice, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #27 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Wisconsin to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 72 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
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 Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of criminal justice degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Any student pursuing a degree in criminal justice has to look into Concordia University, Wisconsin. Located in the suburb of Mequon, Concordia University, Wisconsin is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 25th out of 46 schools for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 5 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Concordia University, Wisconsin in the most recent data year.
It's hard to beat Carroll University if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Carroll U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the city of Waukesha. A Best Colleges rank of #536 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Carroll U is a great university overall.
There were about 20 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Carroll U in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Carthage College if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Carthage is a small private not-for-profit college located in the medium-sized suburb of Kenosha. This college ranks 33rd out of 46 colleges for overall quality in the state of Wisconsin.
There were about 32 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Carthage in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa is a small private not-for-profit college located in the suburb of Wauwatosa.
There were about 6 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa 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. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
