by our College Data Analytics TeamEach year, College Factual releases its Best Quality Schools ranking to identify graduate schools that offer a great educational experience and provide excellent student outcomes. Factors that go into these rankings include how much money students make after graduation, the number of FTE students per instructor, and how much debt students take on to attend the school.
In College Factual's 2024 ranking of the Best Master's Degree Schools in the U.S., John Jay College of Criminal Justice landed the #312 spot out of the 1149 schools analyzed for this list.
In addition, John Jay took the #18 spot for Best Master's Degree Schools in New York.
Athough the male-female ratio may vary depending on the degree program, 54.6% of the total graduate students at John Jay are women and 45.4% are men.
About 63.5% of the graduate students who attend John Jay are from a racial-ethnic minority group*. Americans aren't the only ones who appreciate the graduate programs at John Jay. Around 3.0% of graduate students are international. The chart below shows the breakdown of graduate student demographics at the school. You can click on it for a more detailed view.
The average graduate full-time tuition and fees is shown in the table below.
| In-State | Out-of-State | |
|---|---|---|
| Tuition | $11,090 | $20,520 |
| Fees | $442 | $442 |
After obtaining their master's degree from John Jay, graduates go on to jobs earning an average starting salary of $51,506. Unfortunately for those graduates, that figure is about 12% lower than the national average of $58,425.
Get more details about the location of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
Contact details for John Jay are given below.
| Contact Details | |
|---|---|
| Address: | 524 W 59Th St, New York, NY 10019 |
| Phone: | 212-237-8000 |
| Website: | www.jjay.cuny.edu/ |
During the 2020-2021 academic year, 87.5% of the graduate students at John Jay took at least one online course. For that same period, 61.1% of grad students took all of their classes online.
The only degree programs listed here are those in which master’s degrees were awarded in 2020-2021.
| Master’s Degree Program | Annual Graduates |
|---|---|
| Clinical, Counseling & Applied Psychology | 83 |
| Community Organization & Advocacy | 14 |
| Criminal Justice & Corrections | 254 |
| Economics | 5 |
| International Relations & National Security | 22 |
| Mental & Social Health Services | 45 |
| Public Administration | 214 |
Footnotes
*The racial-ethnic minorities count is calculated by taking the total number of students and subtracting white students, international students, and students whose race/ethnicity was unknown. This number is then divided by the total number of students at the school to obtain the racial-ethnic minorities percentage.
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