Below is a listing of the top fifteen criminal justice university programs as ranked by U.S. News & World Report in 2009:
* University of Maryland
* University at Albany (SUNY)
* University of Cincinnati
* University of Missouri, St. Louis
* Penn State University
* University of California, Irvine
* Florida State University
* Michigan State University
* Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey (Newark)
* CUNY, John Jay College
* Temple University
* Arizona State University
* Northeastern University
* University of Florida
* University of Pennsylvania
The above schools offer some of the finest undergraduate and graduate criminology and criminal justice programs in the United States, and are good first options for students to consider.
