2025 Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Colorado
3Colleges in Colorado
866Criminal Justice Studies Degrees Awarded
Ranked #16 in popularity, criminal justice studies is one of the most sought-after degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Colorado to determine which ones were the best for criminal justice studies students pursuing a degree. Combined, these schools handed out 866 degrees in criminal justice studies to qualified students.
The criminal justice studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
In order to find the schools that are the best fit for you, you may want to filter to one of the degree levels below.
The criminal justice studies school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Colorado.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies in Colorado
Although we recommend filtering by degree level first, you can view the list below to see which schools give the educational experience for the criminal justice studies degree levels they offer.
University of Northern Colorado is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice studies. University of Northern Colorado is a moderately-sized public university located in the medium-sized city of Greeley. A Best Colleges rank of #707 out of 2,152 colleges nationwide means University of Northern Colorado is a great university overall.
There were roughly 103 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at University of Northern Colorado in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Colorado Mesa University if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice studies. Colorado Mesa is a medium-sized public university located in the small city of Grand Junction. This university ranks 26th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were about 55 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Colorado Mesa in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Metropolitan State University of Denver if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice studies. Located in the large city of Denver, MSU Denver is a public university with a large student population. This university ranks 24th out of 31 colleges for overall quality in the state of Colorado.
There were approximately 157 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at MSU Denver in the most recent year we have data available.
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).
The criminal justice studies program you select can have a big impact on your future. That's why we developed our collection of Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies rankings. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice studies schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
