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Most Popular Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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2023 Most Popular Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region

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$43,357 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminology Graduate Certificate School for You

Criminology is the #142 most popular major in the country with 936 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools in the Southeast Region ranking. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in the Southeast Region to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Criminology program at each school on the list.

The following schools top our list of the Most Popular Criminology Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Charlotte the most popular school in the Southeast Region for criminology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Charlotte, UNC Charlotte is a public college with a very large student population.

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#2

Mississippi State University

Mississippi State, MS

The in-demand graduate certificate programs at Mississippi State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the most popular criminology schools in the Southeast Region . Mississippi State is a fairly large public school located in the town of Mississippi State.

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Best Criminology Colleges by State

Explore the best criminology schools for a specific state in the Southeast region.

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 2
Florida 63
Georgia 22
North Carolina 1
Kentucky 7
Louisiana 20
Alabama 9
South Carolina 10
Mississippi 0
West Virginia 3

One of 12 majors within the area of study, criminology has other similar majors worth exploring.

Majors Similar to Criminology

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 2 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).

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