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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$11,730 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,234 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections students earned 120 degrees and certificates from a Rhode Island school, making the subject the 5th in the state.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. 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 Rhode Island 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. 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.

Our calculations use out-of-state tuition and fees in our nationwide and regional rankings. Average in-state tuition and fees are used for our statewide rankings.

The following school tops our list of the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Colleges.

Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate School

#1

Salve Regina University

Newport, RI

Our analysis found Salve Regina University to be the best value school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in Rhode Island. Salve Regina is a small private not-for-profit school located in the suburb of Newport.

Salve Regina graduate students pay an average of $11,730 in in-state tuition and fees each year. While working on their Graduate Certificate, criminal justice majors at Salve Regina accumulate an average of around $21,761 in student debt.

Salve Regina did well in our overall quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Rhode Island list.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Salve Regina University Report

Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the New England Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Massachusetts 414
Connecticut 214
New Hampshire 270
Maine 14
Vermont 11

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 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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