2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region

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Corrections is the 434th most popular major in the country with 4,039 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Great Lakes region, there were 302 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the bachelor’s degree level specifically, there were 35 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $40,343 and $26,790 respectively.

This year’s “Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region” ranking looked at 6 colleges that offer degrees in a bachelor’s in corrections. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their corrections program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region

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

Top 6 Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Corrections in the Great Lakes Region

1

Baker College
Owosso, Michigan

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Baker College. The school came in at #1 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region. This small school is located in Owosso, Michigan, and it awarded 30 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

The impressive undergraduate student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1 means that students may have more opportunities to work more closely with their professors than they would at other schools.

Read full report on Corrections at Baker College

2

Tiffin University
Tiffin, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Tiffin University. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region. Located in Tiffin, Ohio, this small private not-for-profit school handed out 3 degrees to qualified bachelors’s corrections students in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Corrections at Tiffin University

3

Siena Heights University
Adrian, Michigan

Out of the 6 schools in the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Siena Heights University landed the #3 spot on the list. Siena Heights University is a small private not-for-profit school situated in Adrian, Michigan. It awarded 2 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Corrections at Siena Heights University

4

Oakland University
Rochester Hills, Michigan

Top 25% overall quality in Great Lakes

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend Oakland University. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Rochester Hills, Michigan, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 3.6%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read more about Corrections at Oakland

4

Lake Superior State University
Sault Ste Marie, Michigan

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Lake Superior State University. It ranked #4 on our 2023 Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region list. Lake Superior State University is a public institution located in Sault Ste Marie, Michigan. The school has a small population, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s degrees in 2020-2021.

Read more about Corrections at Lake Superior State University

4

University of Akron Main Campus
Akron, Ohio

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Akron Main Campus. The school came in at #4 for the Schools for a Bachelor’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major in the Great Lakes Region. This fairly large school is located in Akron, Ohio, and it awarded 0 bachelors’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

Read full report on Corrections at University of Akron Main Campus

• Most Focused Bachelor’s Degree Colleges for Corrections

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

• *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.