2023 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in the Far Western US Region
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Ranked Colleges
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Degrees Awarded
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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 “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.
Criminal Justice & Corrections is one of the most popular majors in the nation, ranking 7th of all the majors we analyze. In 2021-2022, 109,996 degrees were awarded to students with this major. In , criminal justice & corrections graduates who were awarded their degree in , earned an average of $35,614 and had an average of $22,981 in loans still to pay off.
Across the Far Western US region, there were 18,097 criminal justice & corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $33,456 and $18,994 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 9 criminal justice & corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $76,633 and $152,837 respectively.
This year’s “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region” ranking looked at 2 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in criminal justice & corrections. That schools that top this list have a program in criminal justice & corrections in which the largest percentage of students at the school are enrolled.
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Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region
The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region”.
Top 2 Most Focused Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Corrections in the Far Western US Region
Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #1 spot on the list. Las Vegas, Nevada is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s criminal justice degrees to 5 students in 2021-2022.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 1.5%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.
Full University of Nevada - Las Vegas Criminal Justice & Corrections Report
You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Northcentral University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Doctorate Highly Focused on Criminal Justice Major in the Far Western US Region. Northcentral University is located in San Diego, California and, has a fairly large student population. In 2021-2022, this school awarded 4 doctorate’s criminal justice degrees to qualified students.
The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 0.9%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%. Since the school has a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 1 to 1, those pursuing a degree will have more opportunities to interact with their professors.
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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%.
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- *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.
