by our College Data Analytics Team
It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.
Criminal Justice & Police Science is the 74th most popular major in the country with 20,976 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across Pennsylvania, there were 325 criminal justice & police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 55 criminal justice & police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $41,302 and $25,698 respectively.
For this year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania” ranking, we looked at 4 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice & police science. That schools that top this list have a program in criminal justice & police science in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania”.
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Lackawanna College landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Scranton, Pennsylvania, this small private not-for-profit school awarded 29 diplomas to qualified bachelors’s police science students in 2021-2022.
Full Lackawanna College Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Gwynedd Mercy University landed the #2 spot on the list. This small school is located in Gwynedd Valley, Pennsylvania, and it awarded 25 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2021-2022.
Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 10 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors. The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.3%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full Gwynedd - Mercy Criminal Justice & Police Science Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Neumann University. The school came in at #3 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania. Neumann University is located in Aston, Pennsylvania and, has a small student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 1 bachelors’s police science degrees to qualified students.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.2% 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%.
Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Neumann University
Out of the 4 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Pennsylvania that were part of this year’s ranking, Manor College landed the #4 spot on the list. Manor College is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. It awarded 0 bachelors’s police science degrees in 2021-2022.
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