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

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. 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 Pennsylvania” ranking is part of that endeavor.

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

Across Pennsylvania, there were 347 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 27 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 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. Check out our ranking methodology for more information.

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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 Pennsylvania” list to help you make the college decision.

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

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

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

#1

California University of Pennsylvania

California, Pennsylvania

#1 in overall quality

$18,508 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend California University of Pennsylvania. The school came in at #1 for the Best Value Police Science Schools for a Master’s in Pennsylvania. Cal U is a medium-sized school located in California, Pennsylvania that handed out 27 masters’s police science degrees in 2019-2020.

Cal U also took the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice & Police Science Master’s Degree Schools in Pennsylvania” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at California University of Pennsylvania are $18,508, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Cal U

• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in the Middle Atlantic Region
• Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science

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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