2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Maryland

When it comes to choosing a college, students have a lot of options - but not all of them are good. College Factual was founded, in part, to help students make the decision as to what would be the best school for them. Our “Best Value Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 23,232 people earned their degree in criminal justice and police science, making the major the 44th most popular in the United States.

Across Maryland, there were 681 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 23 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

This ranking identifies schools with high-quality criminal justice and police science programs that also have a lower cost than schools of similar quality.

To come up with these rankings, we looked at factors such as the cost to attend the school after aid is awarded and overall quality of the criminal justice and police science program at the school. For more information, check out our ranking methodology.

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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 Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” list to help you make the college decision.

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Best Value Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland.

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Maryland

#1

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$21,614 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #1 spot on the list. UB is a small school located in Baltimore, Maryland that handed out 23 masters’s police science degrees in 2019-2020.

In addition to being on our maryland master’s degree police science students list, UB has also earned the #1 rank in our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Baltimore are $21,614, but some majors have different tuition rates.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at UB

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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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