<p>I'm a Junior in high school looking to major in criminology, and I'm looking for schools I'd like to visit to get the feel for. A quick google search yields a couple of schools I'm interested in: UMCP, UPenn (Wharton), UC Irvine, MSU, and a couple others. Excepting UPenn (which would be a reach for me), most of these schools seem on target with my academic abilities. Does anybody have any experience that could help me decide which colleges to visit, which to eschew, etc? </p>
<p>I’m currently a undergrad at MSU, and we do have an excellent Criminal Justice major here. I’m also majoring in Psych, and doing an Arabic minor. Although I just started, the countless internships and excellent courses (great criminal justice professors) here are just bizarre - it’s excellent, definitely would recommend it. </p>
<p>I wish you luck on UPenn though, it’s sweet that it’s the only Ivy League that offers the Criminal Justice/Criminology major, I would’ve done that, except I didn’t get in. Hoping to get into Penn Criminology for Grad School, though.</p>
<p>Sorry I couldn’t answer much yet (I’m still a first year sophomore), but that’s all I know.</p>
<p>I was really impressed with Northeasterns criminology program. They have a lot of well known professors (I’m pretty Dr. Henry Lee teaches a few classes) and a good co-op program. That was my first choice until I ended up changing my major to forensic science.</p>
<p>My daughter is a senior and is going to Northern Arizona University (NAU) next year to major in Criminal Justice. She looked at many schools but balanced the location too. Her Top 4 were NAU, Northeastern University, American University, and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. She got a tuition waiver at NAU so it made it nearly a no-brainer for us. </p>
<p>Other top programs … University of Maryland, Penn State, Michigan State, Rutgers, Univ of Cincinnati, Arizona State, and Washington State. I’m sure there are more but those seem to come up often.</p>