2022 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Maryland

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 Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking is part of that endeavor.

In 2019-2020, 33,568 people earned their degree in criminal justice, making the major the 32nd most popular in the United States.

Across Maryland, there were 101 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $0 and $0 respectively. At the master’s degree level specifically, there were 1 criminal justice graduates with average earnings and debt of $60,477 and $45,000 respectively.

Not only do the schools that top this list have excellent criminal justice programs, but they also cost less that schools of similar quality.

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

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Since picking the right college can be one of the most important decisions of your life, we’ve developed the “Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maryland” ranking, along with many other major-related rankings, to help you make that decision.

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Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maryland

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

Top 1 Best Value Master’s Degree Colleges for Criminal Justice in Maryland

#1

University of Baltimore

Baltimore, Maryland

#1 in overall quality

$21,614 Avg Grad Tuition & Fees

Out of the 1 schools in the Best Value Criminal Justice Schools for a Master’s in Maryland that were part of this year’s ranking, University of Baltimore landed the #1 spot on the list. Baltimore, Maryland is the setting for this small institution of higher learning. The public school handed out masters’s criminal justice degrees to 1 students in 2019-2020.

UB also took the #1 spot in our “Best Criminal Justice Master’s Degree Schools in Maryland” ranking. Average graduate tuition and fees at University of Baltimore are $21,614, but you may pay more or less depending on your major.

Full UB Criminal Justice Report

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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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