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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

4 Colleges
$9,320 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,557 Avg Salary

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

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #23 most popular major in Kentucky with 170 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

There are so many programs in today's world that it can tough to figure out which one is the right one for you. 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 Master's Degree Schools in Kentucky to help you in your search for the best school for you. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Kentucky 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 Kentucky

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

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

#1

University of the Cumberlands

Williamsburg, KY

Our analysis found University of the Cumberlands to be the best value school for criminal justice and corrections students who want to pursue a master’s degree in Kentucky. Cumberlands is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the remote town of Williamsburg.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at Cumberlands are $4,582 per year.

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#2

University of Louisville

Louisville, KY

Out of the 4 schools in Kentucky that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Louisville landed the # 2 spot on the list. Located in the large city of Louisville, UofL is a public school with a fairly large student population.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UofL are $13,725 per year.

In addition to its best value ranking, and one of the reasons why the school is on the list, UofL is ranked #5 for overall quality for criminal justice in Kentucky.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Louisville

The excellent master’s degree programs at Eastern Kentucky University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in Kentucky. Eastern is a fairly large public school located in the distant town of Richmond.

Eastern graduate students pay an average of $10,200 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at Eastern Kentucky University

#4

Campbellsville University

Campbellsville, KY

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Campbellsville University. The school came in at #4 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Kentucky list. Campbellsville University is a fairly large private not-for-profit school located in the town of Campbellsville.

Campbellsville University graduate students pay an average of $8,773 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Campbellsville University Report

Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges 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
Louisiana 201
Alabama 211
South Carolina 61
Mississippi 41
Arkansas 21
West Virginia 205

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 4 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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