2023 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Mississippi

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Mississippi” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 32,891 people earned their degree in criminal justice, making the major the 27th most popular in the United States.

Across Mississippi, there were 214 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the associate degree level specifically, there were 16 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,787 and $15,790 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Mississippi” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice. That schools that top this list have a program in criminal justice in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.

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Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Mississippi

The colleges and universities below are the best for mississippi associate degree criminal justice students.

Top 2 Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Mississippi

1

Itawamba Community College
Fulton, Mississippi

#12 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Itawamba Community College landed the #1 spot on the list. ICC is a small school located in Fulton, Mississippi that handed out 16 associates’s criminal justice degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice at ICC

2

Copiah-Lincoln Community College
Wesson, Mississippi

#20 overall quality in Mississippi

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for an Associate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in Mississippi that were part of this year’s ranking, Copiah-Lincoln Community College landed the #2 spot on the list. Copiah-Lincoln Community College is a public institution located in Wesson, Mississippi. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 associates’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice at Copiah-Lincoln Community College

• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in the Southeast Region
• Most Focused Associate Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice

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.