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Lexington, Kentucky has 27 accredited schools offering criminal justice administration programs, with tuition ranging from $4,728 to $39,800 per year for indexed programs. Lexington has a population of about 312,495. In the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro area, the top-earning criminal justice administration-related role is First-Line Supervisor of Police and Detectives at a median $96,140 annually (BLS OEWS, May 2025).
The accredited institutions listed below are the closest in our directory that offer criminal justice administration programs near Lexington, ranked by BOC Score and straight-line distance from Lexington city center. The list is rebuilt from federal IPEDS data on every site update.
Every school list on this site is ordered by the BOC Score, computed from the most recent school-level data published by the U.S. Department of Education (College Scorecard and IPEDS). To qualify, a school must be currently operating and accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Each eligible school is then scored on five measures, percentile-ranked against schools at the same credential level:
Schools without enough outcome data appear after ranked schools, without a score. On this page, schools are ordered by distance from Lexington. Advertising never affects these rankings. Read the full methodology.
Source:IPEDSCollege Scorecard
Source: IPEDS / College Scorecard (2023 cohort). Browse all Kentucky schools on the Kentucky criminal justice administration page.
Lexington is part of the Lexington-Fayette, KY metro area (BLS area code 30460). Where MSA-level wages are published, the table below shows MSA medians; otherwise it falls back to Kentucky statewide.
| Occupation | Median Wage | Source | COL-Adjusted (US=100) |
|---|---|---|---|
| First-Line Supervisor of Police and Detectives | $96,140 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | $103,488 |
| First-Line Supervisor of Correctional Officers | $67,530 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | $72,691 |
| General and Operations Manager | $80,440 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | $86,588 |
| Police and Sheriff’s Patrol Officer | $61,720 | Lexington-Fayette, KY | $66,437 |
Source: BLS, May 2025 Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes wage data at the metro (MSA) and state level – not by individual city.
| Metric | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Regional Price Parity (US=100) | 92.9 (below U.S. average) | BEA RPP 2024 |
Our directory has 27 accredited schools offering criminal justice administration programs near Lexington. The closest is Bluegrass Community and Technical College in Lexington, KY (2.7 miles), and the farthest of the schools shown is Campbellsville University (68.6 miles). 10 of the highlighted schools are flagged as offering distance education.
Based on BLS OEWS May 2025 wage data, the top-paying criminal justice administration-related roles near Lexington are: First-Line Supervisor of Police and Detectives ($96,140), General and Operations Manager ($80,440), First-Line Supervisor of Correctional Officers ($67,530). These reflect MSA-level medians where published, with Kentucky statewide fallback for occupations not reported at the metro level.
Nicholasville, KY is 12.0 miles from Lexington and has its own set of local criminal justice administration programs – see the city’s page. For online programs, distance matters less; for hybrid or in-person formats, comparing both can help.
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Compare every accredited online degree program with city-level data for Lexington:
Data verified: August 11, 2026. Salary, employment, and tuition figures on this page are sourced from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (OEWS May 2025; Employment Projections 2024–2034) and the U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (2023 cohort). The source agency and data year are cited inline with every statistic.
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