2022 Best Value Police Science Schools for a Doctorate

With all of the options students have for higher education today, it can be tough to choose which direction to take. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Best Value Police Science Schools for a Doctorate” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

Criminal Justice & Police Science is the 44th most popular major in the country with 23,232 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 5 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,680 and $116,043 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice and police science programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

When determining these rankings, we looked at things such as overall quality of the criminal justice and police science program at the school and the cost to attend the school once aid has been awarded. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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Best Value Police Science Schools for a Doctorate

The colleges and universities below are the best for doctor’s degree police science students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science

#1

Washington State University

Pullman, Washington

#1 in overall quality

$27,561 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Doctorate that were part of this year’s ranking, Washington State University landed the #1 spot on the list. Pullman, Washington is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s police science degrees to 5 students in 2019-2020.

As a testament to the quality of education offered at Wazzu, the school also landed the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Doctor’s Degree Schools” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at Wazzu are $27,561, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at Wazzu

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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