2022 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies in the Far Western US Region

It’s not easy to decide which college to attend when there so many options available for students. 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 Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region” ranking is part of that endeavor.

Criminal Justice Studies is the 16th most popular major in the country with 46,252 degrees awarded in 2019-2020.

Across the Far Western US region, there were 5,635 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 1 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $72,342 and $136,270 respectively.

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

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

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Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region

The colleges and universities below are the best for far western us region doctor’s degree criminal justice studies students.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies in the Far Western US Region

#1

University of Nevada - Las Vegas

Las Vegas, Nevada

#1 in overall quality

$21,962 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in the Far Western US Region that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Nevada - Las Vegas landed the #1 spot on the list. Located in Las Vegas, Nevada, this large public school awarded 1 degrees to qualified doctorate’s criminal justice studies students in 2019-2020.

UNLV did well in our major quality rankings, too. It placed #1 on our “Best Criminal Justice Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in the Far Western US Region” list. Average graduate tuition and fees at UNLV are $21,962, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

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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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