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2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree Schools in Maryland

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

2 Colleges
$11,833 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,557 Avg Salary

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

In 2020-2021, 25 degrees and certificates were awarded to criminal justice and corrections students who went to a Maryland college or university. This makes it the #110 most popular major in the state.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one 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.

The Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree Schools in Maryland ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 2 schools in Maryland to see which master'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.

This ranking is not just a list of inexpensive schools. We also consider each school's quality, since we believe a low-quality school may not be a 'bargain' at any price. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master's Degree Colleges.

Best Maryland Schools for Affordable Quality for a Master's in Criminal Justice & Corrections

#1

Coppin State University

Baltimore, MD

Our 2023 rankings named Coppin State University the best value school in Maryland for criminal justice and corrections students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Baltimore, Coppin is a public college with a small student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Coppin are $7,902 a year.

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#2

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, MD

The excellent master’s degree programs at University of Baltimore helped the school earn the #2 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in Maryland. UB is a small public school located in the city of Baltimore.

UB graduate students pay an average of $15,764 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Middle Atlantic Region

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

State Degrees Awarded
New York 580
Pennsylvania 181
New Jersey 105
District of Columbia 38
Delaware 68

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of 4 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Criminal Justice

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 2 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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