2023 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Corrections in the Southeast Region
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Corrections is the 434th most popular major in the country with 3,042 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southeast region, there were 769 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $37,436 and $23,790 respectively.
The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their corrections program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.
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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Southeast Region
The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree corrections students.
Top 1 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Corrections in the Southeast Region
Out of the 1 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Southeast Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Eastern Kentucky University landed the #1 spot on the list. Eastern Kentucky University is located in Richmond, Kentucky and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 7 bachelors’s corrections degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.9% is a good sign that students have an easier time paying off their loans than they might at other schools. For comparison, the national default rate is 10.1%.
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Notes and References
References
- 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 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).
- Information about the national average student loan default rate is from the U.S. Department of Education and refers to data about the 2016 borrower cohort tracking period for which the cohort default rate (CDR) was 10.1%.
Read more about our data sources and methodologies
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate are for the top schools only.
- Some schools otherwise deserving of recognition may have been removed from this ranking in the event that new data identified post-publication warranted it, or at the request of the school.
