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2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k

3 Ranked Colleges
392 Degrees Awarded
$22,400 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master's in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Criminal Justice Studies is the 16th most popular major in the country with 46,252 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across Virginia, there were 1,772 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 392 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k” ranking looked at 3 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice studies. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice studies programs, but they also 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 studies program at the school. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k.

Top 3 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies (Income $75-$110k) in Virginia

#1

George Mason University

Fairfax, Virginia
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, George Mason University landed the #1 spot on the list. GMU is located in Fairfax, Virginia and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 18 masters’s criminal justice studies degrees to qualified students.

GMU did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at GMU are $37,410, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Criminal Justice Studies at GMU

#2

Radford University

Radford, Virginia

Out of the 3 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k that were part of this year’s ranking, Radford University landed the #2 spot on the list. Located in Radford, Virginia, this fairly large public school handed out 3 degrees to qualified masters’s criminal justice studies students in 2019-2020.

Radford also made our “Best Criminal Justice Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list, coming in at #0. Average graduate tuition and fees at Radford are $21,382, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Criminal Justice Studies at Radford University

#3

Liberty University

Lynchburg, Virginia
#2 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Liberty University. It ranked #3 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Master’s in Virginia For Those Making $75-$110k list. This large school is located in Lynchburg, Virginia, and it awarded 366 masters’s criminal justice studies degrees in 2019-2020.

Liberty University did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Criminal Justice Studies Master’s Degree Schools in Virginia” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Liberty University are $8,349.

Full Liberty University Criminal Justice Studies 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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