2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Mississippi

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2020-2021, 22,722 people earned their degree in criminal justice and police science, making the major the 74th most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 42 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 13 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice and police science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their criminal justice and police science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi”.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Mississippi

1

East Mississippi Community College
Scooba, Mississippi

#11 overall quality in Mississippi

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend East Mississippi Community College. It ranked #1 on our 2023 Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi list. EMCC is a public institution located in Scooba, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at East Mississippi Community College

2

Strayer University - Mississippi
Jackson, Mississippi

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Strayer University - Mississippi. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Mississippi. Strayer University - Mississippi is a small school located in Jackson, Mississippi that handed out 0 associates’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Strayer University - Mississippi Criminal Justice & Police Science Report

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Notes and References

References

• 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 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).
• Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.

Read more about our data sources and methodologies

Footnotes

• *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
• Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.