2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Mississippi (With Aid)

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. 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 Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” 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 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.

For this year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice. This ranking identifies schools with high-quality criminal justice programs that also have a lower cost than 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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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Mississippi (With Aid)

#1

University of Mississippi

University, Mississippi

#2 in overall quality

$25,099 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of Mississippi. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid list. Ole Miss is a large school located in University, Mississippi that handed out 19 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

Ole Miss did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #2 on our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Mississippi are $25,099, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Criminal Justice at Ole Miss

#2

Mississippi College

Clinton, Mississippi

#1 in overall quality

$12,322 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Mississippi College. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Mississippi For Those Getting Aid list. MC is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Clinton, Mississippi. It awarded 13 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

MC not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in Mississippi” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at MC are $12,322, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Full Mississippi College Criminal Justice Report

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in the Southeast Region (With Aid)
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice (With Aid)

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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