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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

32 Colleges
$16,798 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,234 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 32 schools in the United States to see which graduate certificate 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 Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

Check out the criminal justice graduate certificate programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Top 10 Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools

Our 2023 rankings named American Public University System the best value school in the United States for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the fringe town of Charles Town, American Military University is a private for-profit college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at American Military University are $7,050 a year.

American Military University also claimed a spot on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 15% of all schools in this category.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at American Public University System Report

#2

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

The excellent graduate certificate programs at Liberty University helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in the United States. Located in the small city of Lynchburg, Liberty University is a private not-for-profit school with a fairly large student population.

Liberty University graduate students pay an average of $8,360 in tuition and fees each year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Liberty University Report

#3

Southwestern College

Winfield, KS

A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Southwestern College is a great value for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the town of Winfield, SC is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at SC are $12,768 a year.

On top of its placing in our value ranking, SC also did well on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools list. It’s in the top 5% of all schools reviewed in this analysis.

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Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Arizona State University - Skysong landed the # 4 spot on the list. ASU - Skysong is a fairly large public school located in the midsize city of Scottsdale.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at ASU - Skysong are $9,982 a year.

ASU - Skysong excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 10% of all schools on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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#5

Salve Regina University

Newport, RI

Out of the 32 schools in the United States that were part of this year’s ranking, Salve Regina University landed the # 5 spot on the list. Located in the large suburb of Newport, Salve Regina is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at Salve Regina are $11,730 per year. Criminal Justice majors at Salve Regina take out an average of $21,761 in student loans while working on their Graduate Certificate.

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Western Illinois University came in at #6 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. WIU is a moderately-sized public school located in the town of Macomb.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at WIU are $12,182 a year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Western Illinois University Report

#8

Webster University

Saint Louis, MO

Webster University did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for criminal justice and corrections students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #8 on the list. Webster is a medium-sized private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Saint Louis.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at Webster are $13,500 a year.

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University of Houston - Downtown came in at #9 in this year’s edition of the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools ranking. UH Downtown is a large public school located in the city of Houston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UH Downtown are $15,991 per year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Houston - Downtown Report

#10

Sam Houston State University

Huntsville, TX

Sam Houston State University landed the #10 spot in the 2023 rankings for the best value graduate certificate criminal justice and corrections programs. SHSU is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Huntsville.

SHSU graduate students pay an average of $16,009 in tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at Sam Houston State University

Criminal Justice & Corrections by Region

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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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