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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

29 Colleges
$20,718 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$72,554 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree School for You

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #36 most popular major in the country with 7,783 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. You can choose a traditional brick and mortar school, or with the growth of online education, you can attend a school half-way across the country without even leaving your house. Also there are many trade schools that offer short-term programs that open up more career options.

To help you arm yourself with the information you need to make your decision, Grad Degree Search has developed this Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree Schools ranking. Our analysis looked at 29 schools in the United States to see which doctor's degree programs offered the best value experiences for criminal justice students with the aim of identifying those quality schools that are more affordable than some of their counterparts.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. Specifically, our score for quality is discounted by the published tuition and fees charged by the given college. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The more quality your dollar buys, the better the value.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. For statewide rankings, we use average in-state tuition and fees.

2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for criminal justice majors pursuing a doctor's degree.

Top 10 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree Schools

#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

Out of the 29 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Liberty University landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Liberty University are $8,360 per year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Liberty University Report

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means North Dakota State University - Main Campus is a great value for criminal justice and corrections students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the midsize city of Fargo, North Dakota State University is a public college with a fairly large student population.

North Dakota State University graduate students pay an average of $12,028 in tuition and fees each year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, North Dakota State University also did well on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at North Dakota State University - Main Campus

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend University of Nebraska at Omaha. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools list. UNOMAHA is a large public school located in the city of Omaha.

UNOMAHA graduate students pay an average of $16,374 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Nebraska at Omaha

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Sam Houston State University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in the United States. SHSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Huntsville.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at SHSU are $16,009 per year.

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#6

Capella University

Minneapolis, MN

Capella University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Located in the large city of Minneapolis, Capella University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Capella University are $14,784 per year.

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#7

University of North Dakota

Grand Forks, ND

University of North Dakota landed the #7 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree criminal justice and corrections programs. UND is a fairly large public school located in the city of Grand Forks.

UND graduate students pay an average of $18,968 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of North Dakota

California University of Pennsylvania ranked #8 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools list. Cal U is a moderately-sized public school located in the suburb of California.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Cal U are $18,508 per year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at California University of Pennsylvania Report

#9

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX

Texas State University landed the #9 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value doctor’s degree criminal justice and corrections programs. Located in the small city of San Marcos, Texas State is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Texas State are $17,220 a year.

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#10

Nova Southeastern University

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Nova Southeastern University came in at #10 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools ranking. Located in the large suburb of Fort Lauderdale, NUS Florida is a private not-for-profit college with a very large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at NUS Florida are $22,790 per year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at Nova Southeastern University

Criminal Justice & Corrections by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Related Major Annual Graduates
Homeland Security 2,759
Security Science and Technology 1,875
Other Homeland Security 456
Fire Protection 172

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 25 schools only.

  • The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), a branch of the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) serves as the core of the rest of our data about colleges.
  • Some other college data, including much of the graduate earnings data, comes from the U.S. Department of Education’s (College Scorecard).

More about our data sources and methodologies.

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