2024 Best Criminology Bachelor's Degree Schools in New Hampshire

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 Hampshire ranking. Combined, these schools handed out 113 bachelor's degrees in criminology to qualified students.

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 schools 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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire

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

Top New Hampshire Schools for a Bachelor's in Criminology

1

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus
Durham, NH

62 Annual Graduates

$38,438 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

University of New Hampshire - Main Campus is one of the finest schools in the country for getting a bachelor's degree in criminology. UNH is a large public university located in the small suburb of Durham.

Bachelor's graduates who receive their degree from the criminology program make around $38,438 for their early career.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from University of New Hampshire - Main Campus

2

Saint Anselm College
Manchester, NH

51 Annual Graduates

$41,099 Median Starting Salary

$27,000 Median Student Debt

Any student who is interested in a bachelor's degree in criminology needs to look into Saint Anselm College. Located in the medium-sized suburb of Manchester, St. Anselm College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

Bachelor's students who receive their degree from the criminology program make around $41,099 in their early career salary.

More information about a bachelor’s in criminology from Saint Anselm College

Best Criminology Colleges in the New England Region

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts	238	234
Connecticut	183	179
Rhode Island	157	115
Maine	156	33
Vermont	155	1

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Criminology Related Rankings by Major

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Criminology Concentrations

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminology	113

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.