Criminal Justice School Rankings & Ratings 2010

US News and World Report has a published ranking for the top criminology schools in the nation for 2010. Most of these schools offer a bachelors' and a masters' degree in criminology, but no associates' program. The US News Top Criminal Justice Programs:

1.University of Maryland
2.SUNY Albany
3.University of Cincinnati
4.University of Missouri
5.Penn State
6.University of California/Irvine
7.Florida State
8.Michigan State
9.Rutgers
10.CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice
11.Temple
12.Arizona State
13.Northeastern
14.University of Florida
15.University of Pennsylvania

The City University of NY has a remarkable nineteen variations for undergraduate degrees including three forensics degrees, police studies, and an international law and justice degree. Penn State has an online bachelors' degree in criminal justice in addition to an entire School of Criminal Justice at its Harrisburg campus.

The University of Florida has an undergraduate criminology degree program on campus and a bachelors' degree in fire and emergency services online. Arizona State also has a dual undergraduate program, offering a criminal justice program at the Tempe campus and a bachelors' degree in justice studies online.

Northeastern University offers a dual degree in criminal justice and human services, and has been named as one of eleven Centers of Excellence for Homeland Security Research by the federal government. The University of Maryland University College has three new programs, for a degree in homeland security, a degree in emergency management and a degree in information security which they are treating as a criminology issue.