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

Students have lots of options to chooose from today when trying to decide which college to attend. 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 Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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 Nebraska, there were 640 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $32,745 and $25,759 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 60 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $54,407 and $40,167 respectively.

This year’s “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k” ranking analyzed 2 colleges that offered a degree in criminal justice and corrections. The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great criminal justice and corrections programs and 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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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 Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k” 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 Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k

The colleges and universities below are the best for nebraska master’s degree criminal justice students whose families make $30-$48k.

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

#1

University of Nebraska at Omaha

Omaha, Nebraska

#2 in overall quality

$16,374 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$50,856 Average Early-Career Earnings

Out of the 2 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nebraska at Omaha landed the #1 spot on the list. UNOMAHA is a fairly large school located in Omaha, Nebraska that handed out 24 masters’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

UNOMAHA also took the #2 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at UNOMAHA are $16,374.

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#2

Bellevue University

Bellevue, Nebraska

#1 in overall quality

$11,385 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

$57,318 Average Early-Career Earnings

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Bellevue University. It ranked #2 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Nebraska For Those Making $30-$48k list. Bellevue, Nebraska is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The private not-for-profit school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 36 students in 2019-2020.

Bellevue University not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Master’s Degree Schools in Nebraska” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Bellevue University are $11,385, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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