2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Corrections

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. At College Factual, we’re committed to helping you make that decision by providing information such as that found in our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major” ranking.

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

At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 corrections graduates with average earnings and debt of $58,425 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in corrections. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in corrections.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major

The colleges and universities below are the best for master’s degree corrections students.

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Corrections

1

Minnesota State University - Mankato
Mankato, Minnesota

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major that were part of this year’s ranking, Minnesota State University - Mankato landed the #1 spot on the list. Minnesota State Mankato is a fairly large public school situated in Mankato, Minnesota. It awarded 1 masters’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

The school has an impressive undergrad student loan default rate. It’s only 3.6%, which is much lower than the national rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Corrections at Minnesota State Mankato

2

University of the Southwest
Hobbs, New Mexico

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend University of the Southwest. It ranked #2 on our 2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Corrections Major list. University of the Southwest is a small school located in Hobbs, New Mexico that handed out 8 masters’s corrections degrees in 2020-2021.

Full University of the Southwest Corrections Report

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.