2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region
2Colleges in the Rocky Mountains Region
143Master's Degrees
Ranked #57 in popularity, criminal justice studies is one of the most sought-after master's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in the Rocky Mountains Region to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice studies students pursuing a master's degree. Combined, these schools handed out 143 master's degrees in criminal justice studies to qualified students.
The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.
Major Focus - How much a school focuses on criminal justice studies students vs. other majors.
Major Demand - How many other criminal justice studies students want to attend this school to pursue a master'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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminal justice studies related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminal justice studies students working on their master's degree.
More Ways to Rank Criminal Justice Studies Schools
When choosing the right school for you, it's important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we've created a number of major-specific rankings, including this Best Criminal Justice Studies Master's Degree Schools in the Rocky Mountains Region list to help you make the college decision.
Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Criminal Justice Studies in the Rocky Mountains Region
Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a master's degree in criminal justice studies.
Top Rocky Mountains Region Schools for a Master's in Criminal Justice Studies
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.