2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies in the Southwest Region

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 Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Criminal Justice Studies is the 16th most popular major in the country with 46,814 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 6,952 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 4 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,218 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice studies. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their criminal justice studies program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region”.

Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies in the Southwest Region

1

Sam Houston State University
Huntsville, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Sam Houston State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Huntsville, Texas, this large public school handed out 4 degrees to qualified doctorate’s criminal justice studies students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice Studies at SHSU

2

Tarleton State University
Stephenville, Texas

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Studies Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Tarleton State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Tarleton State University is a public institution located in Stephenville, Texas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 210 doctorate’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Full Tarleton Criminal Justice Studies Report

• Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies

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.