2023 Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region

When pursuing a degree in today’s world, students have many different options to choose from. College Factual has developed its “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking as one item you can use to help make this decision.

Criminal Justice & Police Science is the 74th most popular major in the country with 22,722 degrees awarded in 2020-2021.

Across the Southwest region, there were 3,470 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 0 criminal justice and police science graduates with average earnings and debt of $56,204 and $0 respectively.

For this year’s “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region” ranking, we looked at 2 colleges that offer a degree in criminal justice and police science. This a ranking of the schools where the largest percentage of students has enrolled in criminal justice and police science.

See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region

The following schools top our list of the Best “Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region”.

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

1

Aspen University
Denver, Colorado

Out of the 2 schools in the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region that were part of this year’s ranking, Aspen University landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Denver, Colorado, this medium-sized private for-profit school awarded 22 diplomas to qualified masters’s police science students in 2020-2021.

With a undergrad student-to-faculty ratio of 8 to 1, it’s easy to see that the school is committed to helping their undergraduates succeed. The undergrad student loan default rate at the school is 5.0%, which is quite low when compared to the national default rate of 10.1%.

Read full report on Criminal Justice & Police Science at Aspen University

2

University of Central Oklahoma
Edmond, Oklahoma

You’ll join some of the best and brightest minds around if you attend University of Central Oklahoma. The school came in at #2 for the Schools for a Master’s Highly Focused on Police Science Major in the Southwest Region. Edmond, Oklahoma is the setting for this fairly large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s police science degrees to 0 students in 2020-2021.

Read more about Criminal Justice & Police Science at University of Central Oklahoma

• Most Focused 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

• *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.