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2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

2 Ranked Colleges
35 Degrees Awarded
$18,700 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master's in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

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

Across Mississippi, there were 218 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 35 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $48,447 and $43,355 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

Some of the factors we look at when determining these rankings are overall quality of the criminal justice program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice (Income $48-$75k) in Mississippi

#1

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k list. MC is a small school located in Clinton, Mississippi that handed out 13 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

MC also took the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at MC are $12,322, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Mississippi College Criminal Justice Report

#2

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi
#2 in overall quality

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Making $48-$75k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Mississippi landed the #2 spot on the list. University, Mississippi is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 19 students in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss also made our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list, coming in at #2. Average graduate tuition and fees at Ole Miss are $25,099, 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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