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2022 Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

6 Ranked Colleges
561 Degrees Awarded
$16,900 Avg Net Price*
Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor's in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking.

Criminal Justice & Police Science is the 44th most popular major in the country with 23,232 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,455 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 561 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $38,896 and $23,899 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking, we looked at 6 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice and police science. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great criminal justice and police science programs and cost less that schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the criminal justice and police science program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 6 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science (Income $75-$110k) in the Southwest Region

#3 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas A&M International University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Texas A&M International University is located in Laredo, Texas and, has a medium-sized student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 190 bachelors’s police science degrees to qualified students.

Texas A&M International University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #3 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Texas A&M International University is $8,807 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Police Science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full Texas A&M International University Criminal Justice & Police Science Report

#2

Texas State University

San Marcos, Texas
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Texas State University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Texas State University is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 74 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2019-2020.

Texas State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Texas State University is $19,683 for southwest region bachelor’s degree police science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Texas State

#4 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Stephen F Austin State University. The school came in at #3 for the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Located in Nacogdoches, Texas, this fairly large public school handed out 17 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s police science students in 2019-2020.

SFASU not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #4 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The yearly cost to attend Stephen F Austin State University is $18,653 for southwest region bachelor’s degree police science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at SFASU

#5 in overall quality

Out of the 6 schools in the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Northwestern Oklahoma State University landed the #4 spot on the list. NWOSU is located in Alva, Oklahoma and, has a small student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 9 bachelors’s police science degrees to qualified students.

NWOSU also took the #5 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” ranking. The estimated yearly cost for NWOSU is $13,711 for Southwest Region Bachelor’s Degree Police Science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Full NWOSU Criminal Justice & Police Science Report

#5

Grand Canyon University

Phoenix, Arizona
#2 in overall quality

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Grand Canyon University. The school came in at #5 for the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k. Phoenix, Arizona is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The private for-profit school handed out bachelors’s police science degrees to 247 students in 2019-2020.

Grand Canyon University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #2 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Grand Canyon University is $23,545 for southwest region bachelor’s degree police science students whose families make $75-$110k.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Grand Canyon University

#6

Wiley College

Marshall, Texas
#6 in overall quality

With a ranking of #6, Wiley College did quite well on the 2022 Best Value Police Science Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southwest Region For Those Making $75-$110k list. Located in Marshall, Texas, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 19 degrees to qualified bachelors’s police science students in 2019-2020.

Wiley College did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #6 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southwest Region” list.

Full Wiley College Criminal Justice & Police Science Report

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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

Footnotes

  • *Average salary, average net price, and average tuition and fees 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.

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