2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Kentucky
7Colleges in Kentucky
239Criminal 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 looked at 7 colleges and universities when compiling its 2024 Best Criminal Justice Studies Schools in Kentucky ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 239 degrees in criminal justice studies during the 2020-2021 academic year.
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.
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 Kentucky.
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Best Schools for Criminal Justice Studies in Kentucky
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 has to take a look at University of the Cumberlands. Cumberlands is a large private not-for-profit university located in the remote town of Williamsburg. A Best Colleges rank of #434 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Cumberlands is a great university overall.
There were approximately 63 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Cumberlands in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies has to check out Eastern Kentucky University. Eastern is a fairly large public university located in the distant town of Richmond. This university ranks 10th out of 38 schools for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were roughly 14 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Eastern in the most recent year we have data available.
Any student pursuing a degree in criminal justice studies needs to check out University of Pikeville. Located in the town of Pikeville, UPIKE is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population. This university ranks 16th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were approximately 13 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at UPIKE in the most recent data year.
Northern Kentucky University is one of the best schools in the country for getting a degree in criminal justice studies. NKU is a fairly large public university located in the suburb of Highland Heights. A Best Colleges rank of #716 out of 2,217 schools nationwide means NKU is a great university overall.
There were approximately 66 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at NKU in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of Murray, Murray State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population. A Best Colleges rank of #1002 out of 2,217 colleges nationwide means Murray State is a great university overall.
There were roughly 27 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Murray State in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the town of Columbia, Lindsey Wilson College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population. This college ranks 13th out of 38 colleges for overall quality in the state of Kentucky.
There were about 16 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at Lindsey Wilson College in the most recent year we have data available.
Located in the distant town of Frankfort, KY State is a public university with a small student population. This university ranks 2088th out of 2,217 schools for overall quality nationwide.
There were about 12 criminal justice studies students who graduated with this degree at KY State 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).
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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.
