2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana

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 Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 46,252 people earned their degree in criminal justice studies, making the major the 16th most popular in the United States.

Across Indiana, there were 2,071 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the doctor’s degree level specifically, there were 3 criminal justice studies graduates with average earnings and debt of $77,113 and $102,081 respectively.

The schools that top this list are recognized because they have great criminal justice studies programs and cost less that 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. See our ranking methodology to learn more.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana

The following schools top our list of the Best Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana.

Top 1 Best Value Doctor’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice Studies in Indiana

#1

Indiana University - Bloomington

Bloomington, Indiana

#1 in overall quality

$33,338 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

You’ll be in good company if you decide to attend Indiana University - Bloomington. It ranked #1 on our 2022 Best Value Criminal Justice Studies Schools for a Doctorate in Indiana list. Bloomington, Indiana is the setting for this large institution of higher learning. The public school handed out doctorate’s criminal justice studies degrees to 3 students in 2019-2020.

IU Bloomington also took the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice Studies Doctor’s Degree Schools in Indiana” ranking. Although you might pay more or less depending on your area of study, average graduate tuition and fees at Indiana University - Bloomington are $33,338.

Read full report on Criminal Justice Studies at IU Bloomington

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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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