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2023 Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools

Highlighting Quality Schools With More Affordable Pricing

7 Colleges
$25,145 Avg Tuition & Fees*
$43,357 Avg Salary

Finding the Best Criminology Graduate Certificate School for You

In 2020-2021, 936 people earned a degree or certificate in criminology, making the major the #142 most popular in the United States.

It's not easy to decide which program to enroll in when you have so many options available. 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.

Along with in-depth profiles of schools and the programs they offer, Grad Degree Search has created the Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools to help you in your search for the best school for you. This report analyzed 7 schools in the United States to see which ones offered the best value graduate certificate programs for criminology students. The goal was to highlight schools with more affordable prices than others offering similar quality experiences.

Our ranking of value is based on the quality of a program as defined in our per sticker price dollar. 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.

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

2023 Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools in the United States

The colleges and universities below are the best value schools for criminology majors pursuing a graduate certificate.

Best Schools for Affordable Quality for a Postbaccalaureate Certificates in Criminology

#1

Saint Joseph's University

Philadelphia, PA

Our analysis found Saint Joseph’s University to be the best value school for criminology students who want to pursue a graduate certificate in the United States. St. Joe's is a moderately-sized private not-for-profit school located in the large city of Philadelphia.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at St. Joe’s are $18,144 per year.

St. Joe’s excels when it comes to quality. It’s ranked in the top 5% of all schools on our Best Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools list.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Nevada - Reno. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the large city of Reno, UNR is a public college with a fairly large student population.

UNR graduate students pay an average of $22,380 in tuition and fees each year.

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A rank of #3 on this year’s list means University of North Carolina at Charlotte is a great value for criminology students working on their graduate certificate. UNC Charlotte is a very large public school located in the city of Charlotte.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UNC Charlotte are $21,147 a year.

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You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend California University of Pennsylvania. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Cal U is a moderately-sized public school located in the small suburb of California.

Cal U graduate students pay an average of $18,508 in tuition and fees each year.

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#5

University of Utah

Salt Lake City, UT

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Utah. It ranked #5 on our 2023 Best Value Criminology Graduate Certificate Schools list. Located in the medium-sized city of Salt Lake City, U of U is a public school with a fairly large student population.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at U of U are $25,705 per year.

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With a ranking of #6, University of Cincinnati - Main Campus did quite well on this year’s best value schools for criminology students working on their graduate certificate. Located in the large city of Cincinnati, UC is a public college with a fairly large student population.

The average tuition and fees for an out-of-state graduate students at UC are $26,644 a year.

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University of Massachusetts - Boston did quite well in this year’s ranking of the best places for criminology students to get a graduate certificate. It came in at #7 on the list. UMass Boston is a fairly large public school located in the city of Boston.

Out-of-state tuition fees for graduate students at UMass Boston are $36,485 per year.

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Criminology by Region

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Region
Southeast
New England
Rocky Mountains
Plains States
Middle Atlantic
Far Western US
Southwest
Great Lakes

Criminology is one of 12 different types of programs to choose from.

Majors Similar to Criminology

Related Major Annual Graduates
Economics 6,173
International Relations & National Security 5,010
Political Science & Government 2,664
Geography & Cartography 2,315
Sociology 1,907

Notes and References

*These averages are for the top 7 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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