2024 Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Schools in Indiana
3Colleges in Indiana
99Police Science Degrees Awarded
Ranked #74 in popularity, criminal justice & police science is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Indiana to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice & police science students pursuing a degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 99 degrees in criminal justice & police science during the 2020-2021 academic year.
Choosing a Great Criminal Justice & Police Science School
Your choice of criminal justice & police science 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 & police science 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.
Pick Your Criminal Justice & Police Science 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 & Police Science Schools in Indiana 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 & Police Science in Indiana
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the police science degree levels they offer.
It is difficult to beat Purdue University Global if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice & police science. Located in the city of West Lafayette, Purdue University Global is a public university with a very large student population. A Best Colleges rank of #417 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means Purdue University Global is a great university overall.More information about a degree in criminal justice & police science from Purdue University Global
Vincennes University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice & police science. Vincennes University is a fairly large public university located in the town of Vincennes. This university ranks 14th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were about 46 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at Vincennes University in the most recent year we have data available.
It's difficult to beat University of Indianapolis if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice & police science. UIndy is a medium-sized private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Indianapolis. This university ranks 18th out of 42 schools for overall quality in the state of Indiana.
There were approximately 39 criminal justice & police science students who graduated with this degree at UIndy in the most recent data year.
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).