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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in California

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

1 College
$9,570 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,234 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate School for You

With 353 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections is the #63 most popular major in California.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. Along with traditional schools that require in-person attendence, you can attend one of many reputable online schools. Some programs even offer a hybrid experience. Alternatively, you may choose a trade school that prepares you to enter the workforce with knowledge in a specific field.

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 in California to help you in your search for the best school for you.

When determining this ranking, we place a high emphasis on the school's quality as well as its sticker price. Even though a college may be affordable, it may not offer value. 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.

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

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

Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate School

#1

San Diego State University

San Diego, CA

Our analysis found San Diego State University to be the best value school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in California. Located in the large city of San Diego, SDSU is a public school with a very large student population.

SDSU graduate students pay an average of $9,570 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at San Diego State University

Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Far Western US Region

Explore all the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in the Far Western US Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Washington 53
Oregon 32
Nevada 17
Hawaii 14
Alaska 7

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 values are for the top school 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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