2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Maine
3Colleges in Maine
132Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Awarded
If you pursue a degree in criminal justice studies, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #16 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 3 schools in Maine to determine which ones were the best for degree seekers in the field of criminal justice studies. Combined, these schools handed out 132 degrees in criminal justice studies to qualified students.
Your choice of criminal justice studies school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. We derive our Best Overall Criminal Justice Studies School rankings by rolling up our degree-level rankings after weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each school.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
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 Schools in Maine list to help you make the college decision.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies in Maine
The schools below may not offer all types of criminal justice studies degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
Every student who is interested in criminal justice studies needs to check out University of Maine at Augusta. UMA is a small public university located in the town of Augusta. This university ranks 16th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were about 7 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at UMA in the most recent data year.
Southern Maine Community College is a great option for students interested in a degree in criminal justice studies. Located in the city of South Portland, SMCC is a public college with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1760 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means SMCC is a great college overall.
There were roughly 28 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at SMCC in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Central Maine Community College if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice studies. Located in the rural area of Auburn, Central Maine Technical College is a public college with a small student population. This college ranks 15th out of 19 schools for overall quality in the state of Maine.
There were roughly 38 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Central Maine Technical College 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).