2024 Best Criminology Master's Degree Schools in Florida

If you plan on getting your master's degree in criminology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #130 in the country in terms of popularity. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.

For its 2024 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in Florida to determine which ones were the best for criminology students pursuing a master's degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 56 master's degrees in criminology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

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Choosing a Great Criminology School for Your Master's Degree

Your choice of criminology for getting your master's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality criminology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Master's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of master's graduates during the early years of their career. That is, everyone wants their master's degree to be worth something, and salaries are one measure of determining that.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on criminology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - How many other criminology students want to attend this school to pursue a master's degree.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How much debt criminology students go into to obtain their master's degree and how well they are able to pay back that debt.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminology related body.

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

More Ways to Rank Criminology Schools

Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminology Master's Degree Schools in Florida ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

Best Schools for Master’s Students to Study Criminology in Florida

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

Top Florida Schools for a Master's in Criminology

1

University of South Florida - Main Campus
Tampa, FL

34 Annual Graduates

University of South Florida - Main Campus is a great choice for students pursuing a master's degree in criminology. USF Tampa is a very large public university located in the large city of Tampa.More information about a master’s in criminology from University of South Florida - Main Campus

2

University of Miami
Coral Gables, FL

6 Annual Graduates

It is hard to beat University of Miami if you wish to pursue a master's degree in criminology. Located in the small city of Coral Gables, U Miami is a private not-for-profit university with a fairly large student population.More information about a master’s in criminology from University of Miami

3

The University of Tampa
Tampa, FL

15 Annual Graduates

The University of Tampa is a good decision for individuals pursuing a master's degree in criminology. UT is a fairly large private not-for-profit university located in the large city of Tampa.More information about a master’s in criminology from The University of Tampa

Best Criminology Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Criminology Schools in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Georgia	190	22
Alabama	151	9
Kentucky	147	7
Louisiana	147	20
South Carolina	146	6
Mississippi	145	0
West Virginia	112	3

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Rankings in Majors Related to Criminology

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Criminology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminology	56

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.