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2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

1 Ranked Colleges
3 Degrees Awarded
$24,800 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees*
Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 113,581 criminal justice and corrections students received their degree, making the major the 6th most popular in the country. 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 Georgia, there were 3,711 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $31,704 and $28,359 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 criminal justice and corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $66,934 and $102,100 respectively.

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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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid

The colleges and universities below are the best for georgia doctor’s degree criminal justice students with aid.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in Georgia (With Aid)

#1

Georgia State University

Atlanta, Georgia
#1 in overall quality

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Georgia State University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Doctorate in Georgia For Those Getting Aid list. Georgia State University is a large public school situated in Atlanta, Georgia. It awarded 3 doctorate’s criminal justice degrees in 2019-2020.

Georgia State not only placed well in this ranking. It is also #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice & Corrections Doctor’s Degree Schools in Georgia” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at Georgia State University are $24,790, 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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