2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in the Southwest Region
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When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Criminal Justice is the 27th most popular major in the country with 31,754 degrees awarded in 2021-2022.
Across the Southwest region, there were 3,292 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 10 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $75,912 and $102,180 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in criminal justice.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in the Southwest Region
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Texas Southern University. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region. Located in Houston, Texas, this medium-sized public school handed out 7 diplomas to qualified doctorate’s criminal justice students in 2021-2022.
The low undergrad student loan default rate of 2.1% 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 full report on Criminal Justice at TSU
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Texas State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Texas State is a large school located in San Marcos, Texas that handed out 3 doctorate’s criminal justice degrees in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 2.0%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
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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
- *Avg Salary and Avg 4-Year Grad Rate 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.
