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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia

Identifying Quality Schools at More Affordable Prices

1 College
$7,050 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$65,234 Avg Salary

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

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #12 most popular major in West Virginia with 205 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are lots of options to pick from today when trying to decide which program is right for you. With more and more schools offering online options, you could even register for a great program on the other side of the country. On top of that, there are a considerable number of trade schools that offer fast-track entry to many fields.

To assist you in seeing some of the education options that are available to you, Grad Degree Search has created its Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia ranking.

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

Our 2023 rankings named American Public University System the best value school in West Virginia for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. American Military University is a fairly large private for-profit school located in the fringe town of Charles Town.

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

American Military University also made our Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in West Virginia list, coming in at #1.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at American Public University System

Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
Virginia 632
Florida 631
Georgia 131
North Carolina 82
Tennessee 109
Kentucky 170
Louisiana 201
Alabama 211
South Carolina 61
Mississippi 41
Arkansas 21

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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