2023 Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Kentucky

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

Finding the Best Criminal Justice & Corrections 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.

The Best Value Criminal Justice & Corrections Schools in Kentucky ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. This report analyzed 4 schools in Kentucky to see which ones offered the best value programs for criminal justice students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

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 Schools in Kentucky

Check out the criminal justice programs at these schools if you want to get the best value for your educational dollar.

Best Kentucky Schools for Affordable Quality in Criminal Justice & Corrections

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

Majors Related to Criminal Justice

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.