2024 Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey

If you plan on getting your bachelor's degree in criminology, you won't be alone since the degree program is ranked #53 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.

In 2024, College Factual analyzed 2 schools in order to identify the top ones for its Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Jersey ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 206 bachelor's degrees in criminology during the 2020-2021 academic year.

What's on this page: * Our Methodology

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Early-Career Earnings

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

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.
• Student Debt - How much debt criminology students go into to obtain their bachelor'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 colleges for criminology students working on their bachelor's degree.

One Size Does Not Fit All

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

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Best Schools for Bachelor’s Students to Study Criminology in New Jersey

The following list ranks the best colleges and universities for pursuing a bachelor's degree in criminology.

Top New Jersey Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminology

1

Stockton University
Galloway, NJ

175 Annual Graduates

$30,273 Median Starting Salary

$23,406 Median Student Debt

Stockton University is one of the best schools in the United States for getting a bachelor's degree in criminology. Located in the midsize suburb of Galloway, Stockton State is a public university with a moderately-sized student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the criminology program make an average of $30,273 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from Stockton University

2

Fairleigh Dickinson University - Florham Campus
Madison, NJ

27 Annual Graduates

$30,436 Median Starting Salary

$25,000 Median Student Debt

Any student pursuing a degree in a bachelor's degree in criminology has to check out Fairleigh Dickinson University - Florham Campus. Located in the suburb of Madison, FDU is a private not-for-profit university with a small student population.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the criminology program earn an average of $30,436 in the first couple years of their career.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from Fairleigh Dickinson University - Florham Campus

Best Criminology Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
New York	275	539
Pennsylvania	274	509
Maryland	207	367
Delaware	130	187
District of Columbia	126	8

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Criminology Related Rankings by Major

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Criminology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminology	206

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.