2025 Best Other Corrections & Criminal Justice Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region
3Colleges in the Southeast Region
51Associate Degrees
Other Corrections & Criminal Justice is above average in terms of popularity with it being the #106 most popular associate degree program in the country. As a result, there are many college that offer the degree, making your choice of school a hard one.
For its 2025 ranking, College Factual looked at 3 schools in the Southeast Region to determine which ones were the best for other corrections & criminal justice students pursuing a associate degree. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 51 associate degrees in other corrections & criminal justice during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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Choosing a Great Other Corrections & Criminal Justice School for Your Associate Degree
Your choice of other corrections & criminal justice for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
A Great Overall School
A school that excels in educating for a particular major and degree level must be a great school overall as well. To account for this we consider a school's overall Best Colleges ranking which itself looks at a combination of different factors like degree completion, educational resources, student body caliber and post-graduation earnings for the school as a whole.
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 other corrections & criminal justice students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of other corrections & criminal justice students who choose to seek a associate degree at the school.
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.
Accreditation - Whether a school is regionally accredited and/or accredited by a recognized other corrections & criminal justice related body.
Our complete ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best colleges for other corrections & criminal justice students working on their associate degree.
More Ways to Rank Other Corrections & Criminal Justice Schools
The other corrections & criminal justice school you choose to invest your time and money in matters. To help you make the decision that is right for you, we've developed a number of major-specific rankings, including this list of the Best Other Corrections & Criminal Justice Associate Degree Schools in the Southeast Region.
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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.
by our College Data Analytics Team
Your choice of other corrections & criminal justice for getting your associate degree school matters. This section explores some of the factors we include in our ranking and how much they vary depending on the school you select. To make it into this list, a school must excel in the following areas.
