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

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

4 Colleges
$8,512 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$72,554 Avg Salary

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

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #31 most popular major in Texas with 593 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best for you. 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.

The Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor's Degree Schools in Texas ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Texas 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. More specifically, we discount our quality score by the published tuition and fees charged by a school. This gives the cost per unit of quality for each college. The value is determined by how much quality your dollar buys.

In our regional and nationwide rankings, out-of-state tution and fees are used in our calculations. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools in Texas

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

Best Texas Schools for Affordable Quality for a Doctorate in Criminal Justice & Corrections

Our 2023 rankings named Sam Houston State University the best value school in Texas for criminal justice and corrections students working on their doctor’s degree. Located in the distant town of Huntsville, SHSU is a public college with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at SHSU are $8,666 a year.

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#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, TX

The excellent doctor’s degree programs at Texas State University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in Texas. Texas State is a fairly large public school located in the small city of San Marcos.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Texas State are $9,060 per year.

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#3

Prairie View A & M University

Prairie View, TX

Out of the 4 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Prairie View A & M University landed the # 3 spot on the list. Located in the town of Prairie View, PVAMU is a public college with a medium-sized student population.

PVAMU graduate students pay an average of $7,993 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Out of the 4 schools in Texas that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas Southern University landed the # 4 spot on the list. TSU is a medium-sized public school located in the city of Houston.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at TSU are $8,328 a year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Texas Southern University Report

Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southwest Region

Explore all the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southwest Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Arizona 516
Oklahoma 28
New Mexico 12

One of 4 majors within the area of study, criminal justice and corrections has other similar majors worth exploring.

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 4 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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