2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $30-$48k) in Arkansas

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

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 Arkansas, there were 1,220 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $28,673 and $24,451 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 11 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $53,293 and $39,432 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered 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. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k.

Top 2 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $30-$48k) in Arkansas

#1

Arkansas State University - Main Campus

Jonesboro, Arkansas

$11,586 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Arkansas State University - Main Campus. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k. A-State is a public institution located in Jonesboro, Arkansas. The school has a fairly large population, and it awarded 2 masters’s degrees in 2019-2020.

A-State did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #0 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Arkansas State University - Main Campus are $11,586, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Corrections at A-State

#2

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Little Rock, Arkansas

#1 in overall quality

$14,884 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Arkansas For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Arkansas at Little Rock landed the #2 spot on the list. Little Rock, Arkansas is the setting for this medium-sized institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 9 students in 2019-2020.

UA Little Rock did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Arkansas” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Arkansas at Little Rock are $14,884, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Corrections at University of Arkansas at Little Rock

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $30-$48k) in the Southeast Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections (Income $30-$48k)

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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