2023 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Maryland

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. Our mission at College Factual is to arm you with as much information as we can to help you make that decision. Our “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Maryland” ranking is one tool we have developed to help in this regard.

In 2020-2021, 22,722 people earned their degree in criminal justice and police science, making the major the 74th most popular in the United States.

Across Maryland, there were 639 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 13 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $62,303 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Maryland” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice and police science. The colleges and universities that top this list are recognized because their criminal justice and police science program is one of the largest majors offered at the school.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Maryland

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

Top 2 Most Focused Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice & Police Science in Maryland

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University of Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #1 spot on the list. University of Baltimore is a public institution located in Baltimore, Maryland. The school has a small population, and it awarded 13 masters’s degrees in 2020-2021.

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Coppin State University
Baltimore, Maryland

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, Coppin State University landed the #2 spot on the list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s police science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

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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

• *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.