Abstract. In this paper we consider several homological dimensions of crossed products A σ α G, where A is a left Noetherian ring and G is a finite group. We revisit the induction and restriction functors in derived categories, generalizing a few classical results for separable extensions. The global dimension and finitistic dimension of A σ α G are classified: global dimension of A σ α G is either infinity or equal to that of A, and finitistic dimension of A σ α G coincides with that of A. A criterion for skew group rings to have finite global dimensions is deduced. Under the hypothesis that A is a semiprimary algebra containing a complete set of primitive orthogonal idempotents closed under the action of a Sylow p-subgroup S G, we show that A and A σ α G share the same homological dimensions under extra assumptions, extending the main results in [15,16].