If you pursue a degree in criminal justice, you won't be alone. The field of study is the #27 most popular program in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual looked at 3 colleges and universities when compiling its 2025 Best Criminal Justice Schools in Wisconsin ranking. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 72 degrees in criminal justice annually.
Your choice of criminal justice school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
You may want to choose one of the degree levels below to find the schools of most interest to you.
Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we've developed the Best Criminal Justice Schools in Wisconsin ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.
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The schools below may not offer all types of criminal justice degrees so you may want to filter by degree level first. However, they are great for the degree levels they do offer.
It is hard to beat Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Located in the large suburb of Wauwatosa, Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
There were approximately 6 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Bryant & Stratton College - Wauwatosa in the most recent data year.
It is hard to beat Carroll University if you wish to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Carroll U is a small private not-for-profit university located in the small city of Waukesha.
There were about 20 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Carroll U in the most recent year we have data available.
It's hard to beat Carthage College if you want to pursue a degree in criminal justice. Located in the small city of Kenosha, Carthage is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.
There were roughly 32 criminal justice students who graduated with this degree at Carthage in the most recent data year.
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).
Your choice of criminal justice school matters, so we have put together these rankings to help you make your decision. In order to come up with a best overall ranking for criminal justice schools, we combine our degree-level rankings, weighting them by the number of degrees awarded at each level.
