Best Criminology Doctor’s Degree Colleges in the Southeast Region

Unfortunately, there were no schools in the Southeast Region that made our Best Criminology Doctor's Degree Schools in the Southeast Region list. You may want to check out our national ranking in the field instead.

Choosing a Great Criminology School for Your Doctor's Degree

Your choice of criminology for getting your doctor's degree school matters. Important measures of a quality criminology program can vary widely even among the top schools. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.

A Great Overall School

The overall quality of a doctor's degree school is important to ensure a good education, not just how well they do in a particular major. To make it into this list a school must rank well in our overall Best Colleges for a Doctor's Degree ranking. This ranking considered factors such as graduation rates, overall graduate earnings and other educational resources to identify great colleges and universities.

Early-Career Earnings

One measure we use to determine the quality of a school is to look at the average salary of doctorate graduates during the early years of their career. This is because one of the main reasons people pursue their doctor's degree is to enable themselves to find better-paying positions.

Other Factors We Consider

In addition to the above, you should consider some of the following factors:

• Major Focus - How much a school focuses on criminology students vs. other majors.
• Major Demand - The number of criminology students who choose to seek a doctor's degree at the school.
• Educational Resources - The amount of money and other resources allocated to students while they are pursuing their degree. These resources include such things as number of students per instructor and education expenditures per student.
• Student Debt - How easy is it for criminology to pay back their student loans after receiving their doctor's degree.
• Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized criminology related body.

Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for criminology students working on their doctor's degree.

Insufficient Data for the Southeast Region

As a result of absent data, we were not able to provide you with the criminology quality ranking. This is usually due to there not being enough schools in the Southeast Region that both offer criminology and provided enough information for us to do a proper analysis.

As an alternative, check out at some of our other Criminology rankings below or check out our overall Best Colleges for Criminology ranking.

Best Criminology Colleges by State

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

State	Colleges	Degrees Awarded
Florida	138	7
Virginia	127	2
Mississippi	113	0
Louisiana	103	0
South Carolina	91	4

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Rankings in Majors Related to Criminology

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Criminology Focus Areas

Major	Annual Graduates
Criminology	12

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.