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North Dakota State University-Main Campus campus — Building on the campus of NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota
Building on the campus of NDSU in Fargo, North Dakota. Campus photograph. · Photo: Unimatic1140 · Public domain · source
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North Dakota State University-Main Campus

Fargo, NDPublic HLC

North Dakota State University in Fargo offers criminal justice through its Department of Criminal Justice: a campus BA/BS major, a 30-credit MS and a PhD in Criminal Justice.

Verified degree programs

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

Accreditation

  • Higher Learning Commission (HLC)

    Institutional accreditation — accredited · since January 1, 1915 · next review 08/31/2036

    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.

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…).
  • Criminal Justice minorMinor, not a degree.Source: ndsu.edu · verified October 24, 2026

Institution

Official name
North Dakota State University-Main Campus
Control
Public
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Main location
1301 12th Avenue North, Fargo, ND 58108-6050
Source: nces.ed.gov · verified October 10, 2026
Students enrolled exclusively in distance education
869 of 11,952 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. ndsu.edu/programs/undergraduate/criminal-justice — Official program page, verified October 24, 2026

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