2025 Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota
2Colleges in South Dakota
41Associate Degrees
Criminal Justice & Police Science is of the hottest associate degree programs in the United States, coming in as the #14 most popular major in the country. This means there are lots of options to choose from when you decide to get your degree.
College Factual reviewed 2 schools in South Dakota to determine which ones were the best for associate degree seekers in the field of criminal justice & police science. When you put them all together, these colleges and universities awarded 41 associate degrees in criminal justice & police science during the 2022-2023 academic year.
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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 criminal justice & police science students as compared to other majors.
Major Demand - The number of criminal justice & police science 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 criminal justice & police science related body.
Our full ranking methodology documents in more detail how we consider these factors to identify the best schools for criminal justice & police science students working on their associate degree.
The police science 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 Criminal Justice & Police Science Associate Degree Schools in South Dakota.
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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