2022 Best Value Corrections Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual has developed its “Best Value Corrections Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Corrections is the 419th most popular major in the country with 3,984 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Southeast region, there were 930 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 8 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $36,277 and $25,415 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent 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 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.

One Size Does Not Fit All

When choosing the right school for you, it’s important to arm yourself with all the facts you can. To that end, we’ve created a number of major-specific rankings, including this “Best Value Corrections Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Corrections Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for southeast region bachelor’s degree corrections students.

Top 1 Best Value Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Corrections in the Southeast Region

#1

Eastern Kentucky University

Richmond, Kentucky

#1 in overall quality

$14,149 Average Net Price

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Eastern Kentucky University. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Corrections Schools for a Bachelor’s in the Southeast Region list. Eastern is a fairly large school located in Richmond, Kentucky that handed out 8 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2019-2020.

Eastern did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Corrections Bachelor’s Degree Schools in the Southeast Region” list. The estimated yearly cost for Eastern is $14,149 for Southeast Region Bachelor’s Degree Corrections students.

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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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