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2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

1 Ranked Colleges
7 Degrees Awarded
$37,100 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 33,568 people earned their degree in criminal justice, making the major the 32nd most popular in the United States.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 2,365 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 7 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $74,428 and $121,375 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice 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 program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k

The colleges and universities below are the best for great lakes region doctor’s degree criminal justice students whose families make $48-$75k.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice (Income $48-$75k) in the Great Lakes Region

#1

Michigan State University

East Lansing, Michigan
#1 in overall quality

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in the Great Lakes Region For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, Michigan State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Michigan State University is located in East Lansing, Michigan and, has a large student population. In 2019-2020, this school awarded 7 doctorate’s criminal justice degrees to qualified students.

In addition to being on our great lakes region doctor’s degree criminal justice students whose families make $48-$75k list, Michigan State has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Criminal Justice Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Great Lakes Region” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Michigan State University are $37,056, but some majors have different tuition rates.

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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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