by our College Data Analytics Team
Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Criminal Justice & Police Science is the 74th most popular major in the country with 22,722 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.
Across the Southwest region, there were 3,470 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 579 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,112 and $26,227 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 13 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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The colleges and universities below are the best for southwest region bachelor’s degree police science students.
Out of the 13 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas A&M International University landed the #1 spot on the list. Laredo, Texas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out bachelors’s police science degrees to 189 students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Texas A&M International University
Out of the 13 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Bacone College landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Muskogee, Oklahoma, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 3 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s police science students in 2020-2021.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Bacone College
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Wiley College. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region. Wiley College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Marshall, Texas. It awarded 9 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Wiley College
Out of the 13 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, South University, Austin landed the #4 spot on the list. South University, Austin is a small school located in Round Rock, Texas that handed out 5 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full South University, Austin Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Brookline College - Albuquerque. The school came in at #5 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region. Brookline College - Albuquerque is a small school located in Albuquerque, New Mexico that handed out 10 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an excellent freshman retention rate of 86%, which means students like the school well enough to return for a second year.
Full Brookline College - Albuquerque Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
Brookline College - Tucson ranked #6 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Tucson, Arizona, and it awarded 5 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Brookline College - Tucson Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
Northwestern Oklahoma State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #7. NWOSU is a public institution located in Alva, Oklahoma. The school has a small population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Northwestern Oklahoma State University Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
With a ranking of #8, Grand Canyon University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region list. Grand Canyon University is a large private for-profit school situated in Phoenix, Arizona. It awarded 293 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 5.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Grand Canyon University
With a ranking of #9, Oklahoma Panhandle State University did quite well on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region list. This small school is located in Goodwell, Oklahoma, and it awarded 3 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Oklahoma Panhandle State University
Aspen University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region ranking. Aspen University is a private for-profit institution located in Denver, Colorado. The school has a medium-sized population, and it awarded 14 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
The undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 is a sign that students will have more opportunities to engage with their professors one-on-one. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.
Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Aspen University
Texas State University ranked #11 on this year’s Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region list. This large school is located in San Marcos, Texas, and it awarded 44 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2020-2021.
Full Texas State University Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
Stephen F Austin State University did quite well in the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region ranking, coming in at #12. SFASU is located in Nacogdoches, Texas and, has a fairly large student population. In 2020-2021, this school awarded 4 bachelors’s police science degrees to qualified students.
Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Stephen F Austin State University
University of Central Oklahoma landed the #13 spot on the 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region ranking. University of Central Oklahoma is a public institution located in Edmond, Oklahoma. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at University of Central Oklahoma
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