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2023 Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia

4 Colleges
$65,234 Avg Salary
$18,395 Avg Student Debt

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

With 632 degrees and certificates handed out in 2020-2021, criminal justice and corrections is the #18 most popular major in Virginia.

With all the programs available today, it can be tough to choose which one is the best 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 Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Graduate Certificate Schools in Virginia ranking is one of many tools that Grad Degree Search has developed to help you make your educational decision. Our analysis looked at 4 schools in Virginia to see which graduate certificate programs were the most popular for students. To create this ranking we looked at how many students graduated from the Criminal Justice & Corrections program at each school on the list.

The colleges and universities below are the most popular for criminal justice majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

#1

Liberty University

Lynchburg, VA

Our 2023 rankings named Liberty University the most popular school in Virginia for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. Liberty University is a very large private not-for-profit school located in the city of Lynchburg.

Of the 46 students majoring in criminal justice at Liberty University, 65% are male and 35% are female.

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A rank of #2 on this year’s list means University of Virginia - Main Campus is a great place for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. University of Virginia is a very large public school located in the small suburb of Charlottesville.

Of the 12 students majoring in criminal justice at University of Virginia, 83% are male and 17% are female.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means Virginia Commonwealth University is a great place for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. VCU is a fairly large public school located in the medium-sized city of Richmond.

Full Criminal Justice & Corrections at Virginia Commonwealth University Report

A rank of #4 on this year’s list means University of Management and Technology is a great place for criminal justice and corrections students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the medium-sized city of Arlington, University of Management and Technology is a private for-profit school with a small student population.

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Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Region

Explore all the Most Popular Criminal Justice & Corrections Colleges in the Southeast Area or other specific states within that region.

State Degrees Awarded
Florida 631
Georgia 131
North Carolina 82
Tennessee 109
Kentucky 170
Louisiana 201
Alabama 211
South Carolina 61
Mississippi 41
Arkansas 21
West Virginia 205

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 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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