Skip to content
Criminal JusticeDegrees

National American University-Rapid City

Rapid City, SDPrivate for-profit HLCNational American University Online

National American University lists online criminal justice programs: an Associate of Applied Science, a reduced-credit FOCUSED Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice with six focus areas, and a Henley-Putnam School master's in Terrorism and Counterterrorism Studies.

Verified degree programs

2 programs verified so far (1 associate, 1 bachelor's). The school may offer more programs than we have verified; certificates are not listed as degrees.

National American University-Rapid City

Associate of Applied Science in Criminal Justice

AssociateAASDedicated degreeAppliedAssociate of Applied Science
Format: Online
Location: Rapid City, SDSchool location, not a residency requirement
Attendance: Online attendance requirements not verified
Duration: Duration not verified · 90 credits
Tuition: $342 per credit · All students — Undergraduate general tuition, 46 to 90 credit hours earned (2026-27 award year) · 2026-2027
Next deadline: No upcoming verified deadline
Accreditation: Institution accredited: HLC
Subjects: Criminal Justice
View program

National American University-Rapid City

Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice - FOCUSED

Bachelor'sBSDedicated degreeBachelor of Science
Format: Fully online
Location: Rapid City, SDSchool location, not a residency requirement
Attendance: Fully online as published (no separate campus-visit statement)
Duration: approximately three years (full-time student; actual completion time may vary with course load and transfer credits) · 135 credits
Tuition: $323 per credit · All students — Undergraduate general tuition, 91 to 135 credit hours earned (2026-27 award year) · 2026-2027
Next deadline: No upcoming verified deadline
Accreditation: Institution accredited: HLC
Subjects: Criminal Justice · Corrections · Criminal Investigation · Juvenile Justice · Law Enforcement and Policing
View program

Accreditation

  • Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

    Institutional accreditation — accredited · since January 1, 1985 · next review 08/31/2035

    Recognized by: U.S. Department of Education

    Source: ope.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

FEPAC program accreditation

None of this school's listed programs appears in FEPAC's accredited-program list. FEPAC accredits forensic science programs only and is optional; its absence does not make a program ineligible here.

Institutional accreditation covers the institution. It does not mean every program is FEPAC-accredited — FEPAC accredits individual programs, and we show it only for the program FEPAC lists.

Online student services

Services the university publishes for online students. Availability can depend on program and enrollment status.

Online student services: not verified. We publish this only when the institution states it on an official page.

Where online students can enroll from

State authorization decides whether the school can enroll you in an online program from your state.

State authorization

  • NAU states that it participates in the State Authorization Reciprocity Agreements; the FOCUSED criminal justice bachelor's page also says the program is not available in all states.
    Source: national.edu · verified October 24, 2026

Offerings we reviewed but do not list

This directory lists associate, bachelor's, master's and PhD programs in its subjects. These offerings were checked against official pages and fall outside that scope (certificates, associate degrees, electives-only degrees…).
  • Doctor of Strategic Security (DSS) (Doctor of Strategic Security)Practitioner security doctorate described for mid- and senior-level professionals; not described as a research degree and not a criminal justice program.Source: national.edu · verified October 24, 2026
  • B.S. Strategic Security and Protection Management; M.S. Intelligence Management; M.S. Strategic Security and Protection ManagementSecurity and intelligence management degrees without a documented criminal justice or homeland-security curriculum; not recorded.Source: national.edu · verified October 24, 2026
  • B.S. Information Technology Emphasis Cybersecurity and Forensics (Bachelor of Science)Information technology degree with a cybersecurity and forensics emphasis; no formal digital-forensics pathway verified.Source: national.edu · verified October 24, 2026

Institution

Official name
National American University-Rapid City
Control
Private for-profit
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Main location
4020 Jackson Boulevard Suite 1, Rapid City, SD 57702
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Students enrolled exclusively in distance education
1,026 of 1,026 students (Fall 2023)
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026

Sources

Last verified October 24, 2026. Program facts and their sources are on each program page.
  1. IPEDS 2024–25 Institutional Characteristics (HD2024), via College Navigator — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  2. IPEDS Fall 2023 enrollment by distance-education status (EF2023A_DIST) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  3. DAPIP — HLC institutional accreditation record (data files downloaded 2026-10-10) — U.S. Department of Education dataset (IPEDS / DAPIP), verified October 10, 2026
  4. national.edu/degreecert/criminal-justice-aas/ — Official program page, verified October 24, 2026
  5. national.edu/degreecert/online-criminal-justice-degree/ — Official program page, verified October 24, 2026
  6. national.edu/degreecert/terrorism-and-counterterrorism-studies-ms/ — Official program page, verified October 24, 2026
  7. national.edu/programs/doctoral-degrees/ — Official program page, verified October 24, 2026

Request a correction · Claim this profile

National American University-Rapid City Criminal Justice, Criminology & Forensic Degrees | Programs & Admissions