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

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

8 Colleges
$14,608 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$48,557 Avg Salary

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

Criminal Justice & Corrections is the #71 most popular major in North Carolina with 82 degrees and certificates awarded in 2020-2021.

Today's students have lots of options to pick from when considering higher education opportunities. You're no longer limited to schools in your local area, either, since online programs are becoming more prevalent. Or you may find the programs at a trade school to be a better alternative for you.

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 North Carolina to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 8 schools in North Carolina to see which ones offered the best value master's degree programs for criminal justice students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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.

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

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for criminal justice majors pursuing a master's degree.

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

Our 2023 rankings named University of North Carolina at Charlotte the best value school in North Carolina for criminal justice and corrections students working on their master’s degree. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the large city of Charlotte.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $7,713 per year.

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#2

Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville, NC

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around you if you attend Fayetteville State University. The school came in at #2 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. Fayetteville State University is a medium-sized public school located in the midsize city of Fayetteville.

Fayetteville State University graduate students pay an average of $5,835 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#3

East Carolina University

Greenville, NC

The excellent master’s degree programs at East Carolina University helped the school earn the #3 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in North Carolina. Located in the small city of Greenville, ECU is a public school with a very large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at ECU are $7,594 a year.

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#4

Guilford College

Greensboro, NC

The excellent master’s degree programs at Guilford College helped the school earn the #4 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in North Carolina. Guilford is a small private not-for-profit school located in the city of Greensboro.

The average tuition and fees for an in-state graduate student at Guilford are $5,400 a year.

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The excellent master’s degree programs at North Carolina Central University helped the school earn the #5 place on this year’s ranking of the best value criminal justice and corrections schools in North Carolina. North Carolina Central University is a medium-sized public school located in the large city of Durham.

In-state tuition fees for graduate students at North Carolina Central University are $7,641 per year.

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#6

Mars Hill University

Mars Hill, NC

Mars Hill University ranked #6 on this year’s Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in North Carolina list. Mars Hill is a small private not-for-profit school located in the large suburb of Mars Hill.

Mars Hill graduate students pay an average of $12,211 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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With a ranking of #7, North Carolina Wesleyan College did quite well on this year’s best value schools for criminal justice and corrections students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Rocky Mount, North Carolina Wesleyan College is a private not-for-profit college with a small student population.

North Carolina Wesleyan College graduate students pay an average of $17,435 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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#8

Methodist University

Fayetteville, NC

With a ranking of #8, Methodist University did quite well on this year’s best value schools for criminal justice and corrections students working on their master’s degree. Located in the city of Fayetteville, Methodist is a private not-for-profit school with a small student population.

Methodist graduate students pay an average of $41,428 in in-state tuition and fees each year.

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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
Tennessee 109
Kentucky 170
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.

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 8 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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