2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. One of our goals at College Factual is to give you as much information as we can - such as our “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking - to help you make that decision.

Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 6th of all the majors we analyze. In 2019-2020, 113,581 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In 2017-2018, criminal justice and corrections graduates who were awarded their degree in 2015-2017, earned an average of $31,952 and had an average of $24,936 in loans still to pay off.

Across New Mexico, there were 698 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,971 and $22,739 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 19 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $46,864 and $37,250 respectively.

For this year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice and corrections. Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice and corrections 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 and corrections program at the school and the cost of the school after aid is awarded among other things. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $0-$30k) in New Mexico

#1

New Mexico State University - Main Campus

Las Cruces, New Mexico

#1 in overall quality

$18,275 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$44,942 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, New Mexico State University - Main Campus landed the #1 spot on the list. Las Cruces, New Mexico is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 16 students in 2019-2020.

NMSU Main Campus did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at New Mexico State University - Main Campus are $18,275.

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#2

University of the Southwest

Hobbs, New Mexico

$22,500 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in New Mexico For Those Making $0-$30k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of the Southwest landed the #2 spot on the list. Hobbs, New Mexico is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

USW not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #0 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in New Mexico” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of the Southwest are $22,500, 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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