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2023 Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Kentucky

4 Colleges
$33,467 Avg Salary
$27,395 Avg Student Debt

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections School for You

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #23 most popular major in Kentucky with 170 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Kentucky ranking. This report analyzed 4 schools in Kentucky to see which ones were the most popular programs for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Criminal Justice & Corrections program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for criminal justice majors pursuing a .

#1

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

Our 2023 rankings named University of Louisville the most popular school in Kentucky for criminal justice and corrections students. Located in the large city of Louisville, UofL is a public school with a very large student population.

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#2

University of the Cumberlands

Williamsburg, KY

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of the Cumberlands. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Kentucky list. Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Williamsburg.

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The excellent programs at Eastern Kentucky University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best criminal justice and corrections schools in Kentucky. Eastern is a large public school located in the distant town of Richmond.

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#4

Campbellsville University

Campbellsville, KY

The excellent programs at Campbellsville University helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best criminal justice and corrections schools in Kentucky. Campbellsville University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the town of Campbellsville.

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Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 632
Florida 631
Georgia 131
North Carolina 82
Tennessee 109
Louisiana 201
Alabama 211
South Carolina 61
Mississippi 41
Arkansas 21
West Virginia 205

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Criminal Justice

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security 2,759
Security Science and Technology 1,875
Other Homeland Security 456
Fire Protection 172

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 4 schools only.

  • 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.

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