There are more than fifty universities and colleges in Indiana with many schools having multiple campuses throughout the state.

Indiana Criminal Justice Colleges

The three largest schools in Indiana enroll more than 150,000 college students. If you don't find the exact criminal justice degree program you're looking for at one of these schools, you can also find a variety of degree programs from online criminal justice colleges in Indiana. If you go to school in Indiana, you'll be able to slip in a race at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway or catch a Colts game. Also, if you choose to get a bachelor's degree from one of the criminal justice schools in Indiana, you can be among the 19 percent of the state's population ages 25 and over who have their four-year college degree. As a graduate of one of the criminal justice schools in Indiana, you may be able to find work as a law enforcement or corrections officer at a number of different types of facilities.

Police Jobs in Indiana

Indiana has a total of 88 public and private residential juvenile detention facilities. For federal jobs in corrections, Terre Haute is home to a medium/high-security federal correctional complex. People with law enforcement jobs in Indiana brought in a mean annual wage of $35,560 in 2009, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, which was around $6,000 lower than the national mean. There were 56,420 law enforcement jobs in Illinois, which accounts for a little less than 2 percent of the 3.17 million protective service jobs in the United States in 2009. According to FBI statistics, Indiana's rate of 333 violent crimes per 100,000 people is significantly below the national average of 429. Of those violent crimes in 2009, 90 percent were in metropolitan areas of Indiana and approximately 55 percent were aggravated assault.