2024 Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland

Ranked #44 in popularity, criminology is one of the most sought-after bachelor's degree programs in the nation. This makes choosing the right school a hard decision.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 2 schools in Maryland to determine which ones were the best for criminology students pursuing a bachelor's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 367 bachelor's degrees in criminology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Other Factors We Consider

The metrics below are just some of the other metrics that we use to determine our rankings.

• Major Focus - How many resources a school devotes to criminology students as compared to other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other criminology students want to attend this school to pursue a bachelor's degree.
• Educational Resources - How many resources are allocated to students. These resources may include educational expenditures per student, number of students per instructor, and graduation rate among other things.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminology students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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 Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in Maryland list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Criminology in Maryland

Below you'll see a list of the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminology.

Top Maryland Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminology

1

University of Maryland - College Park
College Park, MD

Doctor's Degree Highest Degree Type

335 Annual Graduates

It is difficult to beat University of Maryland - College Park if you want to pursue a bachelor's degree in criminology. Located in the large suburb of College Park, UMCP is a public university with a very large student population.More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from University of Maryland - College Park

2

Mount St Mary's University
Emmitsburg, MD

26 Annual Graduates

It's difficult to beat Mount St Mary's University if you wish to pursue a bachelor's degree in criminology. Located in the fringe town of Emmitsburg, The Mount is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from Mount St Mary’s University

Best Criminology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

Explore all the Best Criminology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	707	539
Pennsylvania	698	509
New Jersey	351	206
District of Columbia	226	8
Delaware	224	187

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Criminology Related Rankings by Major

Criminology is one of 0 different types of Criminology programs to choose from.

Notes and References

• 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). More about our data sources and methodologies.